CARDIGAN MOUNTAIN
New Hampshire - Grafton County
September 1924: "The New Hampshire Forestry Department is erecting four new lookout towers, one on Cardigan Mountain.--News Letter, N.H. Forestry Dept." (The Forest Worker)
August 18, 1954: "A missing watchman at the fire lookout tower on top of3000-foot Mt. Cardigan, 14 miles from here, was the object of a widespread search today. Wyman Larrabee, 66, was reported missing by District Fire Chief James Q. Ricard when he failed to call in his usual morning report. Larrabee has held the solitary fire watcher's job on Mt. Cardigan for the last 12 summers." (Rutland Daily Herald)
August 19, 1954: "A medical referee who climbed 3,121-foot Mt. Cardigan to view the body of Wyman M. Larrabee, 66-year-old fire lookout, said last night the man died of natural causes. Larrabee had been reported missing since early Tuesday.
Dr. Israel Dinerman said there was no foul play connected with Larrabee's death. Following the verdict, the lookout's body was carried down the mountainside and released to a funeral director.
The searching parties were led up the slope early yesterday by Gov. Hugh Gregg. District Fire Chief James Q. Ricard said the body was found 100 feet below the man's cabin near the mountain peak. The lookout was last seen alive Monday afternoon, but it was not surmised he was missing until Tuesday morning.
The state Forestry Department employe had never missed a 'report check' in his 12 years of service. When he failed to report Tuesday morning, Ricard and two deputies climbed to the man's cabin and found him missing.
Forestry officials at Concord said Larrabee was mysteriously slugged on the head by an unidentified man about a month ago. He did not report the incident but was found unconscious on the trail the next day by Ricard. Larrabee related that two men and two girls were at the base of his tower and when he went down to investigate, one of the men struck him." (Nashua Telegraph)