CATAWISSA
Pennsylvania - Columbia County
July 25, 1922: "A new fire tower has been ordered erected on a site chosen by the state officials on top of the Catawissa mountain. The tower will be erected at once." (Standard-Speaker)
August 18, 1922: "A site was chosen on the mountain about three miles from Catawissa, where a new fire tower will be erected. From this new tower a view of 50 miles in all directions will be secured. The tower will be equipped with a telephone and all other necessary equipment and a watchman stationed there six months in the year. It is also contemplated to erect another tower in the Lykins valley, near Bear Gap, where a site has been practically determined upon." (The Plain Speaker)
August 25, 1922: "Representatives of the state forestry department were in Catawissa this week in connection with the lease of ground for a fire tower. The tower will be built as soon as the land is secured. The site of the old tower is being inspected." (The Morning Press)
April 10, 1925: "A large fire was burning in the area covered by the Catawissa Mountain fire tower.
From this tower, according to dispatches from Bloomsburg, twenty-four fires could be seen yesterday. The large fire was on the Little Mountain and late last night was not under control.
Dense smoke reduced the visibility from the fire tower and hampered the work of fire wardens, who were kept busy extinguishing the small fires and searching for others." (Mount Carmel Item)
November 6, 1934: "A force of 32 men is engaged at the present time in the building of a new road from near Catawissa to the top of the Catawissa mountain, where a state fire tower is to be erected. An allocation of $8497 in public works division funds has been made to pay for the construction of the road." (Shamokin News-Dispatch)
April 13, 1955: "Catawissa Fire Tower, located on Catawissa Mountain, operator, Stanley Lesnefsky. This tower covers Central and Southern Columbia County near Berwick, Bloomsburg and Danville. It also looks into Montour, West Luzerne and Southeastern Lycoming Counties." (Wilkes-Barre Time Leander, The Evening News)