NEW YORK LOOKOUTS
GORE MOUNTAIN
Warren County
August 1909: A lookout was established atop a 18 foot tower at a cost of $118.22 (Sixteenth Annual Report of the Forest, Fish and Game Commission)
1918: A 60-foot steel tower was purchased and erected. (8th Annual Report of the Conservation Commission)
1920: "The steel tower on Gore Mountain in Warren County was blown down by a hurricane in October, 1919. It was reconstructed this year." (Conservation Commission Annual Report to the Legislature, 1920)
January 11, 1934: "Acquisition of the parcel of 1,861.17 acres acquired for $9,320.85 in the town of Johnsburg, Warren county, includes not only the observation station upon the summit of Gore Mountain, but also carries with it a right of way over the private highway leading to the Barton Mines from the state road at North River, together with the right to maintain a telephone line from the commercial telephone line in the Hudson River valley to the fire observation station. The Gore Mountain station is one of the more important stations in the lower Adirondacks and is visited annually by many mountain climbers because of the fire view from the summit." (Adirondack Record-Elizabethtown Post)