LAMB'S KNOLL
Maryland - Frederick County
July 16, 1934: "Tower will be 80 feet high and have air beacon on top. CCC workers will begin the work this week of erecting an 80-foot fire tower on Lamb's Knoll, on South Boonsboro Mountain.
A 60-foot tower, which has been located at Thayersville, Md., is being taken down and will be transported to Lamb's Knoll. An additional 20-feet will be constructed.
An air beacon will be placed on top of the tower in order that planes flying at night will not strike it." (The Daily Mail)
A 60-foot tower, which has been located at Thayersville, Md., is being taken down and will be transported to Lamb's Knoll. An additional 20-feet will be constructed.
An air beacon will be placed on top of the tower in order that planes flying at night will not strike it." (The Daily Mail)
August 17, 1934: "Boys from the CCC camp at the Washington monument site near Boonsboro, are now erecting a fire tower at Lamb's Knoll, south of Dahlgren. The tower will be the second highest in Western Maryland as it is located on an elevation of 1,745 feet. The highest tower is at Quirauk, near Pen-Mar." (The Daily Mail)
December 16, 1934: "The first time you get a chance visit the fire lookout tower in the Catoctin-South Mountain area, in the heart of Maryland's Blue Ridge Mountains. Standing on the crest of Lambs Knoll, three miles south of the National Pike on South Mountain, this 80-foot steel structure overlooks a panorama of valley and mountains. From the tower room, at an elevation of 1850 feet, may be seen the Potomac River, which separates the great valley of Virginia from the Hagerstown part of the valley. Northward along South Mountain one can easily pick out Quirauk Mountain, Pine Knob and Black Rock, while Monument Knob stands out closer to the tower." (The Escanaba Daily Press - Michigan)
March 21, 1942: "The State fire tower on Lamb's Knoll, west of Middletown, was opened Friday. Henry P. Turner near Middletown, has been named towerman and assumed his duties Friday." (The News)
June 20, 1956: "Extensive improvements are being made at and near the Lamb's Knoll fire tower on South Mountain in Washington County about three miles south of Alternate Route 40.
Herman Toms, district state forest warden at Gambrill State Park told a reporter who went past the tower last week, that a new road is being constructed from the Reno Monument Road, about a mile south of Turner's Gap, to the tower, a distance of 1 9-10 miles.
The work is being done by the Maryland State Department of Forests and Parks and the road contractor is David H, Young, Middletown, who had two bulldozers working on the road for several days. Toms said grading of the road was completed last Saturday.
The work includes widening the fire tower road, leveling it off, removing rocks and some trees. The old road was very narrow. It will soon be possible for afire tower lookout to drive a car from the Reno road to the tower in about ten minutes.
Toms said the forest fire lookout season had ended and watching would not start again until some time this fall. Lookouts are employed at the towers from five to six months out of the year.
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NGS Data Sheet
DESIGNATION - LAMBS KNOLL LOOKOUT TOWER
PID - JV4631
STATE/COUNTY- MD/FREDERICK
COUNTRY - US
USGS QUAD - KEEDYSVILLE (2016)
STATION DESCRIPTION
DESCRIBED BY COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY 1939 (APR)
THIS STATION IS A LOOKOUT TOWER OF THE MD. FOREST SERVICE. IT IS
LOCATED ON THE TOP OF A ROUND-TOPPED MOUNTAIN KNOWN AS LAMBS
KNOLL AND IS ABOUT 5 MILES WSW OF MIDDLETOWN, MD.
THE TOWER IS OF STEEL CONSTRUCTION, HAS A CLOSED CABIN AT THE
TOP AND IS 110 FEET HIGH.