MASSACHUSETTS LOOKOUTS
GIBBET HILL
(GROTON)
Middlesex County
July 12, 1940: "It is reported that a fire lookout tower is to be constructed here this fall." (The Lowell Sun)
September 12, 1941: "George Roundy is attending the fire watch tower on Gibbet hill." (Fitchburg Sentinel)
April 22, 1957: "Greater forest fire protection for the entire northern Middlesex county was demanded today by members of the state legislature and fire officials of this town and Dunstable.
Charges of patronage in selecting men to man forest fire towers in the area were hurled at the administration as tinder dry woodlands presented the most dangerous forest fire hazard in this area in several years." (The Lowell Sun)