FLAT ROCK
Delta County
June 27, 1934: "Eight members of the Civilian Conservation Corps camp at J. W. Wells park started work yesterday in the erection of a 100-foot steel fire tower at Flat Rock, near Holy Family Catholic church. The CCC men will be quartered at the state conservation department headquarters here while the work is in progress." (The Escanaba Daily Press)
July 13, 1934: "Ernest Libby, Marquette, supervisor of the eastern half region of the upper peninsula, was a visitor in Escanaba yesterday. Mr. Libby inspected the work being done on the erection of a fire tower by C.C.C. men at Flat Rock." (The Escanaba Daily Press)
June 4, 1937: "The High Climbers club of the conservation district has two nominees for the titles of youngest and oldest fire tower climbers in Michigan.
The youngest nominee is a boy four years old. Dickie McNeil, son of A. L. McNeil, conservation clerk, climbed the Flat Rock Tower unassisted. The Flat Rock Tower is of the inside stairway type." (The Ironwood Times)
September 12, 1937: "Towerman Miles Froberg of the Flat Rock tower, in a report to conservation department headquarters yesterday, outlined a list of outside visitors who have climbed the Flat Rock tower.
Froberg said that the people who constitute the tourist class were very much interested in the description of fire detection and suppression and most of them had never been up a tower before.
Among the visitors listed on Froberg's register included: two from Montreal, Canada; nine from Chicago, three from Rockford, one from New York City, one from Ashley, N.C., two from Omaha, four from Minneapolis, two from Richfield, Ohio, two from Green Bay, two from Wuriatow, Wis., six from Detroit, two from Flint, two from Dearborn, one from Reed City, one from Lansing and three from East Lansing.
O.T. Houland of this city, who is 76 years of age, was the oldest person to climb the tower while among the younger persons were Richard McNeil, 4, son of the headquarters clerk; Janis Bergman, 4, of Bark River; and Charlotte O'Mera, 6, of Chicago." (The Escanaba Daily Press)