LILLY
Indiana - Brown County
April 16, 1931: "At a cost of about $1,300 J.K. Lilly, Indianapolis business executive, is having erected a steel fire tower on his 500 acre forest holdings northeast of Nashville, which will serve both to protect the Lilly timber from fire and protect hundreds of other forest acres in the vicinity.
This tower will be raised on Pinnacle Hill, seven miles from a tower on Weed Patch Hill and fits in the conservation department's scheme to place 12 or 15 steel fire towers at intervals to protect some 35,000 acres of timber in this section of the state.
The Lilly tower will be 80 feet high with closed cab to protect the observer from weather. This and state towers will be connected by telephone, so when the observer spots a fire, word is broadcast and the blaze extinguished before serious damage is caused. On the Lilly estate there are great stands of hardwoods such as oaks, poplar, beech and hickory. There has been no logging in this tract since the civil war and the stand is one of the best in this part of the nation, according to Ralph Wilcox, state forester." (Brown County Democrat)
This tower will be raised on Pinnacle Hill, seven miles from a tower on Weed Patch Hill and fits in the conservation department's scheme to place 12 or 15 steel fire towers at intervals to protect some 35,000 acres of timber in this section of the state.
The Lilly tower will be 80 feet high with closed cab to protect the observer from weather. This and state towers will be connected by telephone, so when the observer spots a fire, word is broadcast and the blaze extinguished before serious damage is caused. On the Lilly estate there are great stands of hardwoods such as oaks, poplar, beech and hickory. There has been no logging in this tract since the civil war and the stand is one of the best in this part of the nation, according to Ralph Wilcox, state forester." (Brown County Democrat)