NEW YORK LOOKOUTS
HUNTER MOUNTAIN
Greene County
August 1909: A lookout was established atop a 40 foot tower on this point at a cost of $225.21. (Sixteenth Annual Report of the Forest, Fish and Game Commission - 1910)
1917: A 60-foot steel tower was erected. (7th Annual Report of the Conservation Commission)
1924: "In accordance with the Commission's policy of keeping up the cabins at the observation stations, a new cabin has been erected at Hunter Mountain." (Conservation Commission Fourteenth Annual Report)
June 12, 1958: "A rescue team battled rugged mountain terrain Wednesday to bring a 68-year-old fire observer down from the mountain station in which he had been stricken ill.
The jeep-borne rescue party ran into snow at upper levels of 4,000-foot Hunter Mountain in taking Morton Francis down. The 3 1/2-mile trip took two hours." (The Post-Standard)
June 14, 1958: "Morton Francis, 68, of Catskill, a fire observer who was brought down from his isolated mountain station by a rescue team that battled snow drifts, died yesterday.
Mr. Francis had been stricken while on duty in a tower atop 4,000-foot Hunter Mountain. A jeep-bourne rescue party took him from the station to Greene County Memorial Hospital where he died. Hospital officials said the apparent cause of death was a virus infection, but an autopsy was ordered." (The Times Record)