CORNELL HILL
Saratoga County
1924: "In accordance with the Commission's policy of keeping up the cabins at the observation stations, a new cabin has been erected at Cornell Hill." (Conservation Commission Fourteenth Annual Report)
September 22, 1926: "On the Luther estate an opportunity was given to study the state's system of forest fire protection from the Conservation Commission's fire tower on Cornell Hill." (The Courier-Freeman)
June 13, 1930: "Having planted trees at the rate of a million a year for several years on his 10,000-acre estate in Saratoga county, Thomas C. Luther, one of the world's leading individual tree planters, has suspended reforesting operations and will devote this year to perfecting a fire protection and forest pest control system.
Fire lines will be established about the plantations and more than 35 miles of road on the estate will be thoroughly brushed out and widened. A state fire tower at Cornell Hill, which is within the boundaries of the Luther property, will serve as the eyes of the protective system." (Plattsburg Sentinel)