WEST VIRGINIA LOOKOUTS
LAUREL HILL (MOUNTAIN)
Barbour/Randolph Counties
West Virginia Division of Forestry
West Virginia Division of Forestry
1913-1914: "L.L. Bennett contracted to supply a watchman at his own expense for a term of three years for Laurel Hill Station." (Biennial Report - Forest, Game & Fish Warden - West Virginia - 1913-14)
1916: "This station is located on the line between Barbour and Randolph Counties, seven miles from Elkins and five miles from Bellington. The elevation is 3,075 feet and commands a view of approximately 500 square miles. No regular watchman is employed as there is a family living within two hundred feet of the station and these people go to the tower several times daily and make observations, and report any fires discovered to this office from which point they are taken charge of or deputies notified. The station is built only one story high, and is not enclosed. A map table is used and a metal cover to protect it from the weather is provided.
Practically all land in the territory of this station is in small tracts, and as the section is thickly settled and good phone service may be had very few bad fires occur." (4th Biennial Report of the Forest, Game and Fish Warden)
Removed