ELLENDALE
Sussex County
1931: "Work on the erection of the towers was started on July 29, 1931 and completed October 15 when the towers were opened for service. The towers are normally open but 2 1/2 months in Spring and 2 months in the Fall or a total of 4 1/2 months of the years; the length of each period being largely dependent on weather conditions and the possibility of forest fires.
All towers are of a steel construction with inside wooden stairway leading to a 7 foot square cabin; the upper half of which is enclosed in glass. They are 100 feet in height from the ground to the bottom of the cabin floor or 110 feet over all. The top is of beacon type construction providing a hurricane deck which not only shades the steel roof but may sometime serve for triangulation surveying or aeroplane beacon installation.
The Ellendale tower is situated on a 50-foot elevation a short distance south of Ellendale-Milton State Highway about 2 miles east of Ellendale. For the telephone communication in this tower it was necessary for the Department to construct 1.8 miles of line from Ellendale to the tower.
Site and improvement --------------------------------$112.60
Erection of tower---------------------------------------1,662.92
Equipment---------------------------------------------------95.30
Telephone connection-----------------------------------396.65
Total------------------------------------------------------- 2,265.47
+ Cost of tower----------------------------------------$8,103.98" (2nd Annual Report of the State Forester FYs 1931 & 32)
All towers are of a steel construction with inside wooden stairway leading to a 7 foot square cabin; the upper half of which is enclosed in glass. They are 100 feet in height from the ground to the bottom of the cabin floor or 110 feet over all. The top is of beacon type construction providing a hurricane deck which not only shades the steel roof but may sometime serve for triangulation surveying or aeroplane beacon installation.
The Ellendale tower is situated on a 50-foot elevation a short distance south of Ellendale-Milton State Highway about 2 miles east of Ellendale. For the telephone communication in this tower it was necessary for the Department to construct 1.8 miles of line from Ellendale to the tower.
Site and improvement --------------------------------$112.60
Erection of tower---------------------------------------1,662.92
Equipment---------------------------------------------------95.30
Telephone connection-----------------------------------396.65
Total------------------------------------------------------- 2,265.47
+ Cost of tower----------------------------------------$8,103.98" (2nd Annual Report of the State Forester FYs 1931 & 32)
1933: "At the Ellendale tower, situated on the Ellendale-Milton State Highway about two miles east of Ellendale, the plantation of shortleaf and loblolly pine established in the Spring of 1932 was gone over and replacements made where trees had died during the year." (Annual Report of the State Forester to the State Forestry Commission, FY 1933)
1934: "At the Ellendale tower (2 miles east of Ellendale) the posts which had previously been placed around the parking area and along the drive were painted with aluminum paint." (Annual Report of the State Forester to the State Forestry Commission, FY 1934)
1942: "A new control map has been mounted and made ready for installation in the Ellendale tower." (Annual report of the State Forester to the State Forestry Commission, FY 1942)