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  • KENTUCKY
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    • MISC NOTES _ Kentucky
  • MAINE
    • Allagash Mountain
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    • Ararat Mountain
    • Atherton Hill
    • Attean Mountain
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    • Bailey Mountain
    • Bald Mountain
    • Bald Mountain (Dedham)
    • Barren Mountain
    • Bear Mountain
    • Beech Mountain
    • Beetle Mountain #33
    • Bigelow Mountain
    • Black Cat Mountain
    • Blackstrap Hill
    • Blue Hill
    • Blue Mountain
    • Boarstone Mountain
    • Boundary Bald Mountain
    • Burnt Mountain
    • Camp Colby
    • Carr Pond Mountain
    • Cedar Mountain
    • Center Mountain
    • Clear Lake Mountain
    • Cobb Hill
    • Coburn Mountain
    • Deer Mountain
    • Depot Mountain
    • Frye Mountain
    • Hardwood Mountain
    • Harris Mountain
    • Horse Mountain
    • Hunt Mountain
    • Kibbie Mountain #24
    • Lead Mountain
    • Lily Bay Mountain
    • Little Russell Mountain
    • Little's Mountain
    • Medford Hill
    • Millinocket Hill
    • Mount Abraham
    • Mount Agamenticus
    • Mount Hope
    • Mountain Hill (Haskell Hill)
    • Moxie Bald Mountain
    • New Gloucester
    • Norway Bluff
    • Oak Hill
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    • Peekaboo Mountain
    • Pleasant Mountain
    • Priestly Mountain
    • Rocky Mountain
    • Round Mountain
    • Sabao Mountain
    • Sabbatus Mountain
    • Saddleback Mountain
    • Sargent Mountain
    • Schoodic Mountain
    • Snow Mountain
    • Soper Mountain
    • Spencer Mountain
    • Squaw Mountain
    • Wadleigh Mountain
    • Wesley Mountain
    • West Kennebago Mtn
    • Whitney Hill
    • Zircon Mountain
  • MARYLAND
    • Bittinger
    • Black Hill
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    • Burtonsville
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    • Church Creek
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    • Dan's Rock
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    • Fair Hill
    • Fairview
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    • Foy's Hill
    • Gambrill State Park
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    • Green Hill
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    • High Knob
    • High Rock.
    • Hillmeade
    • Hollofield
    • Lamb's Knoll
    • Long Hill
    • Madonna
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    • Nassawango
    • Negro Mountain.
    • Pleasant Hill
    • Powellville
    • Quantico
    • Quirauk
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    • Rising Sun
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    • Shiloh
    • Sideling
    • Snaggy Mountain
    • Spring Hill.
    • St John's Rock
    • Stoney Forest
    • Thayerville
    • Timmonstown
    • Town Hill
    • Warrior Mountain
    • Welcome
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    • Woodlawn
  • MASSACHUSETTS
    • Misc. History
    • Airfield Hill
    • Alander Mountain
    • Baldpate Hill
    • Barden Hill
    • Bare Hill
    • Bear Hill
    • Becket Mountain
    • Berlin Mountain
    • Billington Hill
    • Bluff Head
    • Bonney Hill
    • Borden Mountain
    • Brodie Mountain
    • Brownies
    • Brush Hill
    • Burrill Hill
    • Captain's Hill
    • Copicut Hill
    • Exchange Bldg (Harwich)
    • Fay Mountain
    • Gibbet Hill
    • Hart's Hill
    • High Rock
    • Lair Mountain
    • Lenox Mountain
    • Manomet Hill
    • Minechoag Mountain
    • Monks Hill
    • Moores Hill (Goshen)
    • Moose Hill
    • Mount Everett
    • Mount Grace
    • Mount Lincoln
    • Mount Massaemet
    • Mount Watatic
    • Mount Wilcox
    • Richmond Hill
    • Robbin Hill
    • Shoot Flying Hill
    • Signal Hill
    • Steerage Rock
    • Wachusett Mountain
  • MICHIGAN ..
  • MICHIGAN.
    • Alfred
    • Alger
    • Amasa
    • Arnold
    • Arvon
    • Atlanta
    • Aylsworth - Johnson
    • Baldwin
    • Baraga
    • Barbeau
    • Barton
    • Bates
    • Bear Creek
    • Beaver
    • Beech Hill
    • Bergland
    • Bessemer
    • Big Bay
    • Blaney
    • Bliss
    • Boon Hill
    • Bowman
    • Boyne Falls
    • Briar Hill
    • Brohman
    • Brule
    • Buck Hill
    • Buell
    • Caberfae
    • Cadillac
    • Calumet
    • Carp Lake
    • Castile Hill
    • Cedar
    • Chippewa Hill
    • Chub Lake
    • Cliff
    • Comins
    • Comstock Hill (Lewiston)
    • Conners
    • Cooks
    • Copper Peak
    • Copps
    • Covington
    • Croton
    • Crystal
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    • Daggett
    • Demond Hill
    • Deward
    • Donken
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    • Dukes
    • Dunbar
    • Eagling
    • East
    • East Tawas Forest Nursery
    • East Township
    • Eckerman
    • Eckerman Corner
    • Elk Hill
    • Elm River
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    • Farwell
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    • Fence Lake
    • Ferry
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    • Fisk Knob
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    • Flathorn
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    • Fordney
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    • Froberg Hill
    • Gibbs
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    • Glen Harbor
    • Glennie
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    • Goetzville
    • Golden Lake
    • Gould City
    • Grand Lake
    • Grant spar tree
    • Grass Lake
    • Greenland
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    • Hairpin Curve
    • Hale
    • Hansen - Stolberg
    • Harrison
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    • Herman
    • Higgins Lake
    • Highwood
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    • Houghton Lake
    • Houghton Lake Southeast
    • Imp Lake
    • Iron Mountain
    • Iron River
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    • K.B.
    • Kinross
    • Lake Emma
    • Lake Gogebic
    • Lee
    • Little Mountain.
    • Long Lake
  • MICHIGAN
    • Mackinac Island
    • Mallard Lake
    • Manistique
    • Maple City
    • Maple Hill
    • Matchwood
    • Maxton
    • Mayfield
    • McFarland
    • McNearney Lake
    • Melstrand
    • Mission Hill
    • Moddersville
    • Moran
    • Moss Lake
    • Mount Ojibway
    • Mt. Tom
    • Nestor
    • Newberry
    • Norway
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    • Ogemaw
    • Omer
    • Otter Lake
    • Panorama Hill
    • Paradise East
    • Peacock
    • Pentwater
    • Perch Lake
    • Pigeon River
    • Pinora
    • Pomeroy Lake
    • Prescott
    • Presque Isle South
    • Ramsay
    • Red Bridge
    • Reeder Hill
    • Rockview
    • Rollways
    • Selma
    • Seney
    • Seven Mile Hill
    • Silver Creek
    • Silver Lake
    • Silver Mountain
    • South Tower
    • Spaulding
    • Steuben
    • Stonington
    • Summit.
    • Tallman
    • Teepee Lake
    • Tolfree
    • Trout Creek
    • Trout lake
    • Turin
    • Twin Lake
    • Verona
    • Vulcan Hill
    • Waco
    • Wakefield
    • Walsh
    • Watersmeet
    • Wellston
    • Yankee Springs
    • General & Misc
    • Misc. Notes
  • MISSISSIPPI
    • Benndale
    • Bilbo
    • Brownsville
    • Center
    • Energy
    • Fairview
    • Hopewell
    • Glen
    • Gore Springs
    • Green Mountain
    • Knoxville
    • Leesdale
    • Luce
    • Lucedale Central
    • Maxie
    • McHenry
    • Meridian
    • Monticello
    • Moore
    • Moselle
    • Mount Hebron
    • Pine Mountain
    • Pleasant Hill
    • Quitman
    • Ramsay
    • Red Banks
    • Rocky Hill
    • Rolling Fork
    • Shipman
    • Shockaloo
    • Splunge
    • Tippah
    • Wilmot
    • Winborn
    • Wren
  • NEW HAMPSHIRE
    • Abenaki
    • Attitash-Bear Peak
    • Bear Hill
    • Bear Island
    • Beech Hill
    • Belknap Mountain
    • Black Mountain
    • Black Mountain (Benton)
    • Blue Job Mountain
    • Cambridge Black
    • Cannon Mountain
    • Cardigan Mountain
    • Carr Mountain
    • Carter
    • Carter Dome
    • Catamount Mountain
    • Cherry Mountain
    • Cooley Hill
    • Craney Hill
    • Crotched Mountain
    • Croydon Mountain
    • Crystal Mountain
    • Currier Mountain
    • Deer Mountain
    • Devils Den
    • Diamond Peak..
    • Dix Peak
    • Federal Hill
    • Gardner Ridge
    • Garrison Hill
    • Grandview
    • Great Hill
    • Green Mountain
    • Hancock Spur
    • Hyland Hill
    • Iron Mountain
    • Jeremy Hill
    • Jodrie Hill
    • Kearsarge Mountain (South)
    • Magalloway Mountain
    • Middle Sister
    • Milan Hill
    • Monadnock
    • Mount Cabot
    • Mount Carrigan
    • Mount Chocorua
    • Mount Garfield
    • Mount Hale
    • Mount Kearsarge (North)
    • Oak Hill
    • Pine Mountain
    • Pitcher Mountain
    • Red Hill
    • Rock Rimmon
    • Sam's Hill
    • Signal Mountain
    • Smarts Mountain
    • Stewarts Peak
    • Stinson Mountain
    • Stratham Hill
    • Sugarloaf Mountain
    • Teneriffe Mountain
    • Uncanoonuc
    • Warner Hill
    • West Magalloway
    • West Royce
    • Whitcomb Mountain
    • Wildcat
  • NEW JERSEY
    • Apple Pie Hill
    • Bass River
    • Batsto (Mansion)
    • Batsto
    • Bear Swamp Hill
    • Bearfort
    • Belleplain
    • Big Hill
    • Blue Anchor
    • Budd Lake
    • Camp Dix
    • Catfish
    • Cedar Bridge
    • Culvers Lake
    • Dias Creek
    • Edison
    • Four Mile
    • Green Pond Mountain
    • Greystone
    • Hominy Hills
    • Jamesburg
    • Kinnelon
    • Lakehurst Naval Air Station
    • Lakewood
    • Lebanon
    • McKeetown
    • Medford
    • Millville
    • Milton
    • Mizpah
    • OLD BRIDGE
    • Penn Forest
    • Ramapo
    • Windbeam
    • Woodmansie
  • NEW YORK
    • Alma Hill
    • Ampersand Mountain
    • Arab Mountain
    • Azure Mountain
    • Bald Mountain
    • Balsam Lake Mountain
    • Bayshore
    • Beacon Hill
    • Bear Mountain (Perkins)
    • Beaver Lake Mountain
    • Beebe Hill
    • Belfry Mountain
    • Belle Ayre
    • Berlin Mountain
    • Berry Hill
    • Black Mountain
    • Black Rock Forest
    • Blue Mountain
    • Boreas Mountain
    • Bova Mountain
    • Bramley Mountain
    • Brookfield
    • Buck Mountain..
    • Camp Upton
    • Castor Hill
    • Cat Mountain
    • Catamount Mountain
    • Cathead Mountain
    • Cathedral Rock
    • Central Islip
    • Chapin Hill
    • Chenango Lake
    • Cherry Springs
    • Clock
    • Clove Mountain
    • Colfax Mountain
    • Cornell Hill
    • Crane Mountain.
    • Cross River
    • Dairy Hill
    • Debar Mountain
    • Diamond Mountain
    • Dickinson Hill
    • Dix Hills
    • Dun Brook Mountain
    • Erwin Game Refuge
    • Fingerboard Mountain
    • Flanders Hill
    • Fort Noble Mountain
    • Gallis Hill
    • Georgetown Mountain
    • Gilbert Lake
    • Gomer Hill
    • Goodnow Mountain
    • Gore Mountain.
    • Graham Mountain
    • Hadley Mountain
    • Hamilton Mountain
    • Hartzfelt Mountain
    • High Point
    • Hooker Hill
    • Hunter Mountain
    • Hurricane Mountain
    • Ingraham hill
    • Jackie Jones
    • Jersey Hill
    • Kane Mountain
    • Kempshall Mountain
    • Kings Park
    • Leonard Hill
    • Loon Lake Mountain
    • Lyon Mountain
    • Mohonk Mountain
    • Moose River Mountain
    • Moosehead Mountain
    • Morgan Hill
    • Mount Adams
    • Mount Morris
    • Mount Tremper
    • Ninham Mountain
    • Number Four
    • Oakdale
    • Ohmer Mountain
    • Overlook Mountain
    • Owlshead Mountain
    • Padlock
    • Page Pond
    • Parker Cabin Mountain
    • Petersburg Mountain
    • Pharaoh Mountain
    • Pillsbury Mountain
    • Pocatello Mountain
    • Poke-O-Moonshine Mountain
    • Prospect Mountain
    • Red Hill
    • Rock Rift
    • Rondaxe (Bald Mtn)
    • Sand Hill
    • Slide Mountain.
    • Snowy Mountain
    • Spitzenberg Mountain
    • Spruce Mountain
    • St. Regis Mountain
    • Sterling Mountain
    • Stillwater Mountain
    • Stissing Mountain
    • Stony Hill
    • Swancott Hill
    • Swede Mountain
    • T Lake Mountain
    • Telescope Hill (Selden)
    • Tooley Pond Mountain
    • Twadell Point
    • Utsayantha Mountain
    • Vanderwacker Mountain
    • Wakeley Mountain
    • Washburn Mountain
    • West Mountain
    • White Hill
    • Whiteface Mountain
    • Woodhull Mountain
    • MISC.
  • NORTH CAROLINA
    • Misc. Notes - N.C.
    • Ahoskie
    • Air Bellows
    • Albert Mountain
    • Anderson Mountain
    • Ansonville
    • Apex
    • Bannerman
    • Barnett Knob
    • Bayleaf - 1
    • Bayleaf - 2
    • Bearwallow Mountain
    • Beaverdam Bald
    • Belcross
    • Benns Knob
    • Big Knob
    • Big Stamp
    • Biggerstaff Mountain
    • Black Swamp
    • Bolivia
    • Boone
    • Buck Mountain
    • Butner
    • Cameron Hill
    • Camp
    • Camp Creek Bald
    • Camp Parrydice
    • Cane Mountain
    • Carter Top
    • Carthage Courthouse
    • Carolina Hotel (Pinehurst)
    • Caswell County
    • Catherine Lake
    • Chadbourn
    • Chesapeake
    • Chestnut Mountain
    • Clingman's Dome
    • Corbin Mountain
    • Dixon
    • Dugger Mountain
    • Duke Chapel Tower (Durham)
    • Dunn Mountain
    • East Lake
    • Edgecombe
    • Engelhard
    • Foreman
    • Fountain
    • Fox Mountain
    • Frye Mountain
    • Fryingpan Mountain
    • Glover
    • Greens Cross
    • Hassell
    • Henderson
    • High Windy
    • Hillsborough
    • Jefferson
    • Johanna Bald
    • Jones Lake
    • Knightdale
    • Linney's Mountain
    • Louisburg
    • Medoc
    • Mount Mitchell
    • Mount Sterling
    • Newkirk
    • Palistine
    • Pembroke
    • Pilot Mountain
    • Pinnacle Mountain
    • Proctorville
    • Rendezvous Mountain
    • Rich Mountain -F
    • Riegel
    • Round Mountain
    • Sassafras Knob (MTN)
    • Scranton
    • Shallotte
    • Simmons
    • South Mills
    • Southern Pines
    • Spruce Pine
    • Standing Indian Bald
    • Toxaway Mountain
    • Waccamaw
    • Warren County
    • Wayah Bald
    • Wilmar
    • Winespring Bald
    • Woodville
  • OHIO
    • Armintrout
    • Ash Cave
    • Atkinson Ridge
    • Bloomfield
    • Blue Rock
    • Brush Ridge
    • Copperhead Hill
    • Fairview
    • Farrell Hill
    • Grass Knob
    • Green Ridge
    • Kehota
    • Keystone
    • Kimble
    • Leavittsville
    • Limerick
    • Lone Pine
    • Mackeltree
    • McCune Ridge
    • Mineral Springs
    • Mohican
    • New Castle Hill
    • Oreton
    • Pilot Knob.
    • Pond Run
    • Reed Hill
    • Rockbridge
    • Rockhouse
    • Scioto Trail
    • Senecaville
    • Sewellsville
    • Shawnee
    • Simmering Ridge
    • Snake Ridge
    • Tappan
    • Telegraph Hill
    • Tuppers Plains
    • Twin Creek
    • Vigo
    • Waterloo
    • West Point
    • Woods Ridge
  • PENNSYLVANIA (A-F)
    • Misc. History
    • Abbott Mountain
    • Allegheny Ridge
    • Amberson Ridge
    • Ardell Farm
    • Aristes (Centralia)
    • Asaph
    • Aughanbaugh
    • Baer Mountain
    • Bailey
    • Bailey Run Fork
    • Baker Oven
    • Bald Eagle
    • Bald Knob
    • Bald Knob
    • Bald Knob
    • Bald Mountain
    • Bald Mountain
    • Baldwin Run
    • Bally
    • Banning Knob
    • Barree
    • Bear Cave
    • Blar Creek
    • Bear Mountain.
    • Bear Run
    • Bears Head
    • Bell Branch
    • Berkey Hill
    • Beyer Camp
    • Biedler
    • Big Bear Spring
    • Big Fire Line
    • Big Flat
    • Big Knob (Flat)
    • Big Knob..
    • Big Pine Hill
    • Big Pocono
    • Big Poe Mountain
    • Big Ridge
    • Big Rocky Hill
    • Big Shinney
    • Big Turn
    • Birch Rocks
    • Bixel Farm
    • Bloss Mountain
    • Blue Hill
    • Blue Knob
    • Blue Mountain
    • Blue Ridge
    • Blue Ridge (Mt Dunlap)
    • Boone Mountain
    • Booney
    • Boot Jack Hill
    • Boyer's Knob
    • Broad Mountain
    • Brooks
    • Brush Mountain
    • Buck Ridge
    • Buckhorn Ridge
    • Bull Head
    • Catawissa
    • Clarks Knob
    • Clymer
    • Cherry Springs
    • Chickaree
    • Chimney Rocks
    • Christman
    • Clarion County Courthouse
    • Coal Knob
    • Coffin Rock
    • Cole Hill
    • Cook Forest
    • Cornwall
    • Cove Mountain
    • Cow Catcher
    • Crandall Hill
    • Cresco Heights
    • Delaware Water Gap
    • Dry Land Hill
    • Dunlo
    • Elliott
    • Elstie
    • Faunce
    • Flag Staff
    • Four Mile Hill
    • Fox Hill
    • Fox Mountain
    • Freeland
  • PENNSYLVANIA (G-P)
    • Gleason Hill
    • Glen Campbell
    • Glen Summit
    • Goodall
    • Goodwin Knob
    • Gould's
    • Grandview
    • Grass Flat
    • Greenlee
    • Green Knob
    • Greenwood
    • Grove Mountain
    • Hall's Rock
    • Hanley
    • Harrison
    • Hartley
    • Harveys
    • Hays Lot
    • Hays Mills
    • Hazelton
    • Head of Bailey Run
    • Hege Ridge
    • Hemingway
    • High Knob
    • High Rock.
    • High Top
    • Highland Fling
    • Hog Back
    • Holmes Hurst
    • Hopewell
    • Hostein
    • Hough Mountain
    • Humboldt
    • Jacks Mountain
    • Keffer's
    • Kellogg Mountain
    • Kinton Knob
    • Kooser Mountain
    • Lee
    • Lightner
    • Little Flat
    • Little Mountain
    • Lonesome Pine
    • Long Mountain
    • Lookout Mountain....
    • Lower Yoder
    • Lytles Knob (Loop)
    • Maple Hill
    • Maple Hill
    • Marienville
    • Marshburg
    • Martin Hill
    • Mauch Chunk
    • McDade
    • Mehoopany
    • Middleswarth
    • Mount Minis
    • Mount Pleasant
    • Mountain Top
    • Mt. Beacon
    • Negro Mountain
    • North Mountain.
    • Oak Knob
    • Old Town
    • Paddy Mountain
    • Penn View
    • Penobscot Mountain
    • Pindleton
    • Pine Hill
    • Pine Mountain
    • Pohopoco
    • Pond Field
    • Port Clinton
    • Prospect Hill
    • Pumping Station
    • Purdue
  • PENNSYLVANIA (R-Z)
    • Rarick Hill
    • Rathburn Place
    • Rattlesnake Pike
    • Rattlesnake Ridge
    • Rauchtown
    • Resica
    • Riansares
    • Ricketts
    • Rising Mountain
    • Robertsville
    • Rockhill
    • Rockton
    • Rolling Rock
    • Round Mountain (Knob)
    • Round Top.
    • Round Top..
    • Royal Ridge
    • Saint Boniface
    • Saint Lawrence
    • Salem Mountain
    • Sand Mountain (Centre)
    • Sand Mountain
    • Sandy Ridge (Summit)
    • Scotch Mountain
    • Scrub Oak
    • Shade Mountain
    • Shaffers Path
    • Sharp Mountain
    • Sheffield
    • Sherman's Mountain
    • Shickshinny
    • Sideling Hill
    • Smith
    • Snow Shoe
    • Snowy Mountain.
    • Sprout Point
    • St. Petersburg
    • Staley's Knob
    • State Capital Building
    • Statler Hill
    • Stony Point
    • Strattenville
    • Sugar Loaf Mountain
    • Summit Colliery ??
    • Tamarack
    • Tark Hill
    • The Loop
    • Thickhead Mountain
    • Tionesta
    • Trevorton
    • Tri-County
    • Tuscarora
    • Tussey Mountain
    • Tyrone
    • Victory
    • Virginia Rocks
    • Wagner
    • Washington Springs
    • Waterville
    • West Branch
    • West Hill
    • West Pike
    • West Pittston
    • Westfall
    • Wheeler
    • Whetham
    • White Rock
    • Wildwood
    • William Penn Memorial
    • Woodward
    • *******
    • Not named
  • RHODE ISLAND
    • Blackstone Valley
    • Bowen Hill
    • Buck Hill
    • Chopmist Hill
    • Cranston
    • Durfee Hill
    • Escoheag Hill
    • George Washington
    • High School Hill
    • Jenckes Hill
    • Jerimoth Hill
    • Mowry
    • Nooseneck Hill
    • Pine Hill
    • Quaker Hill
    • Shannock Hill
    • Tower Hill
    • Tunk Hill
    • Wickaboxet Hill
  • SOUTH CAROLINA
    • Adams Run
    • Appleton
    • Arthur
    • Atkins
    • August Hill
    • Aynor
    • Ballentine
    • Bamburg
    • Barnwell
    • Bennettsville
    • Bethera
    • Big Knob
    • Bishopville
    • Black River
    • Blaney
    • Blenheim
    • Blythewood
    • Bonneau
    • Brittons Neck
    • Brookgreen
    • Browns Mountain
    • Buck Hall
    • Buffalo
    • Bull Island
    • Calhoun
    • Camden
    • Cane Branch
    • Cassatt
    • Cassels
    • Catchall
    • Chester
    • Clemson
    • Cleveland
    • Cook
    • Cooper
    • Corbin Mountain
    • Cordesville
    • Cottageville
    • Craytonville
    • Cross
    • Cross Anchor
    • Davidson
    • Dentsville
    • Dillon
    • Draytonville
    • Dunbarton
    • Duncan
    • Earle
    • Eastover
    • Edgefield
    • Edisto
    • Elko
    • Epworth
    • Faulkner Mountain
    • Ferguson Mountain
    • Foreston
    • Fork Shoals
    • Fort Motte
    • Gaston
    • Gilbert
    • Glassy Mountain
    • Graniteville
    • Gravel Hill
    • Green Pond
    • Harbison State Forest
    • Hartsville
    • Hawthorne
    • Hilton Head
    • Hobbysville
    • Hodges
    • Holly Hill
    • Honey Hill
    • Horsehead Creek
    • Issaqueena
    • Jamestown
    • Jenkinsville
    • Johns Island
    • Kelly
    • Key Bridge
    • Lake Murray
    • Latta
    • Lee-Matthews (Olanta)
    • Leeds
    • Leesville
    • Liberty Hill (Edgefield)
    • Liberty Hill
    • Little Mountain
    • Lodge
    • Long Creek (Round Mtn)
    • Long Lane Branch
    • Loris
    • Lowndesville
    • McBee
    • McCormick
    • Meade
    • Monetta
    • Mont Clare
    • Mountville
    • Myrtle Beach Estates
    • Neese's
    • New Zion
    • Northampton
    • Oakley
    • Oakway
    • Oakwood
    • Oates
    • Okeetee
    • Paris Mountain
    • Parsons Mountain
    • Patrick
    • Pineville
    • Primus
    • Ridgeland
    • Riverside
    • Rowesville
    • Ruby
    • Saint George
    • Saluda
    • Sassafras Mountain
    • Sedalia
    • Sharon
    • Shiloh
    • Silverton
    • Simpson
    • Spring Hill
    • State Park
    • Stateburg
    • Stringer Ridge
    • Summerville
    • Timmonsville
    • Tip Top
    • Tomlinson
    • Troy
    • Tuxbury Lumber Company
    • Wagener
    • Wallace (Ballast Ridge)
    • Wampee
    • Way
    • White Oak
    • Whitestone
    • Winyah Bay
    • Woodlawn
    • Yauhannah
  • TENNESSEE
    • Adams
    • AEDC (The Barrens)
    • Aetna
    • Allardt
    • Alpine (Pilot)
    • Altamont
    • Anthony Hill
    • Antioch
    • Avondale
    • Bacon Ridge
    • Barrow Hollow
    • Bays Mountain (Garden Mtn)
    • Beaver Bald
    • Bee Rock
    • Beech Bluff
    • Beersheba (Dykes Mtn)
    • Bell
    • Belle Eagle
    • Ben Parton
    • Bennett
    • Black Creek
    • Blanket Mountain
    • Bon Aqua
    • Bryson Mountain
    • Catoosa
    • Center
    • Chimney Top
    • Clinch Mountain
    • Cove Mountain
    • Crown Mountain
    • Dover
    • English Mountain
    • Fall Creek Falls
    • Fisherville
    • Flatwood
    • Frozen Head
    • High Spur
    • Hiwassee Knob
    • Hobbs Hill
    • Hohenwald
    • Holston High Knob
    • Hurricane
    • Jakes Mountain
    • Jennings Knob
    • Keith Springs
    • Kettle Foot
    • Kingston Springs
    • Leach
    • Look Rock
    • Maynardville
    • Meadow Creek
    • Millsfield
    • Monterey
    • Mooresburg (Flat Gap)
    • Natchez Trace (Headquarters)
    • Oswald Bald
    • Parker Hill
    • Petway
    • Pickett
    • Pinnacle Mountain
    • Roan Mountain (High Knob)
    • Rockwood (Mt Roosevelt)
    • Sale Creek
    • Sassafras Knob
    • Sewanee
    • Short Mountain
    • Silverdale
    • Smryna
    • Sneedville
    • Sparta
    • Springdale
    • Standing Stone
    • Stoney Point
    • Stony Creek
    • Sullivan's Ridge
    • Summer City
    • Summertown
    • Sycamore
    • Theta
    • Van Hill
    • Westpoint
    • White Rock
    • Whitetop Knobs
    • Wolf Pen
    • Worthington Knob
    • Wright Mountain
  • VERMONT
    • Bald Mountain
    • Bald Mountain
    • Bear Mountain (Hill)
    • Bellevue Hill
    • Belvidere Mountain
    • Bolton Mountain
    • Bromley Mountain
    • Burke Mountain
    • Buzzell Hill
    • Camel's Hump
    • Chipman Hill
    • Cogswell Hill
    • Cow Mountain
    • Dorset Peak
    • Elmore Mountain
    • Equinox Mountain
    • Gile Mountain
    • Gilson Mountain
    • Glastenbury Mountain
    • Gore Mountain
    • Haystack Mountain
    • Killington Peak
    • Monadnock Mountain
    • Mount Ascutney
    • Mount Carmel
    • Mount Cushman
    • Mount Olga
    • Mount Philo
    • Okemo Mountain
    • Owl's Head Mountain
    • Pico Peak
    • Robert Frost Mountain
    • Round Mountain
    • Sable Mountain
    • Saxon's Hill
    • Scragg Mountain
    • Spruce Knob
    • Spruce Mountain
    • Stone Mountain
    • Stratton Mountain
    • West Pond Mountain
  • VIRGINIA
    • Alton
    • Amelia # 31
    • Apple Orchard Mountain
    • Ark
    • Bald Knob
    • Bald Mountain
    • Bald Mountain (JNF)
    • Bartlick
    • Bearwallow
    • Bedford
    • Big A Mountain
    • Big Bend
    • Big Knob
    • Big Ridge
    • Birch Knob
    • Birdnest
    • Blakey Ridge
    • Bluff Mountain
    • Bother Knob
    • Bowers Hill
    • Brushy Mountain
    • Brushy Mountain.
    • Buck Knob
    • Buckingham Mountain (Buffords Mtn)
    • Buckner Ridge
    • Buffalo Mountain
    • Buffalo Ridge
    • Bull Hill
    • Bull Mountain
    • Bull Run Mountain (Jackson)
    • Butt Mountain
    • Capron
    • Caroline (Baylor)
    • Carters Mountain
    • Center Cross
    • Chancellor
    • Chestnut Knob
    • Chestnut Mountain
    • Comers Rock
    • Cow Knob
    • Crafton Gate
    • Culpeper
    • Cumberland CH
    • Deerhead Mountain
    • Dickey Mountain
    • Duncan Knob
    • East Leake (Gum Springs)
    • Elliot Knob
    • Feather Camp
    • Flag Rock
    • Flagpole Knob
    • Fork Mountain
    • Groundhog Mountain
    • Hardscrabble Knob
    • Hazel Mountain
    • High Knob
    • High Knob
    • High Rock
    • Hog Back
    • Hunter
    • Isle of Wight
    • Jasper Cliff
    • Jones Knob
    • King George (Circle)
    • Leigh Mountain
    • Lyells (Westmoreland)
    • Mathews
    • Meadows
    • Middlesex (Saluda)
    • Miller's Head (Skyland)
    • Miskimon
    • North Mountain
    • Nottoway (Blackstone)
    • Olinger
    • Peak Knob
    • Pender
    • Pine Knob
    • Pitt
    • Pleasant Shade
    • Potts Mountain
    • Prince George
    • Quinque
    • Reddish Knob
    • Riven Rocks
    • Round Mountain
    • Shacklefords
    • Sharp Top
    • Short Hill Mountain
    • Smith Mountain
    • Sounding Knob
    • Suffolk
    • Surry County
    • Toano
    • Trayfoot Mountain
    • Trico
    • Turkey Cock Mountain
    • Wallace Peak
    • White Rock (Lee)
    • White Rock (Mill Mtn)
    • Wise Mountain
    • Woodstock
    • Misc. Notes - Virginia
  • WEST VIRGINIA
    • Misc. Notes - W.V.
    • Backbone Mountain (Olson)
    • Bald Knob z
    • Barton Knob
    • Beardon Knob
    • Beaver Lick Mountain
    • Bee Mountain
    • Bell Knob
    • Berwind
    • Bickle Knob
    • Big Mountain
    • Big Ridge
    • Black Mountain
    • Blair Mountain
    • Briery Knob
    • Brushy Mountain
    • Buck Knob
    • Buffalo Mountain
    • Burning Rock
    • Cabell
    • Cabin Hill
    • Caddell Mountain
    • Carlin Hill
    • Cheat View
    • Cherry Pond Mountain
    • Coalwood
    • Dolly Sods (Plains)
    • Elk Horn Rock
    • Elk Knob
    • Gatewood
    • Gaudineer Knob
    • Gauley Mountain
    • Half Moon Mountain
    • Hanging Rock
    • Hopkins Mountain
    • Huff's Knob
    • Ivy Knob
    • Keeney's Knob
    • Lambert Knob
    • Laurel Hill
    • Lick Knob
    • Lone Star
    • Mann Mountain
    • Michael Mountain
    • Mikes Knob
    • Mingo Mountain
    • Mount Desert
    • Mozark Mountain
    • Nathaniel Mountain
    • Niges Cliff
    • North Mountain
    • Olga
    • Paddy Knob
    • Panther State Forest
    • Pigeon Roost
    • Pike Knob
    • Pilot Knob
    • Piney Knob
    • Point Mountain
    • Red Oak
    • Red Spruce
    • Rich Knob
    • Round knob
    • Sharps Knob
    • Shawnee Mountain
    • Sleepy Creek
    • Snaggy Mountain
    • Smoke Camp Knob
    • Snowshoe
    • Spring Mountain
    • Spruce knob
    • Stop Knob
    • Sugar Grove
    • Tams Mountain
    • Thorny Mountain
    • Tick Ridge
    • Tip Top
    • Turkey Mountain (Knob)
    • Weiss Knob
    • White Oak Knob
    • Williams Hill
    • Wriston Knob
  • Snow Mountain #6
  • Crown Mountain
  • Crown Mountain
  • Round Mountain
  • Round Mountain

MISC. HISTORY OF PENNSYLVANIA LOOKOUTS

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August 20, 1917:   "Steel forest towers for observation of fire will be erected in forests in the Hazelton district, where extensive reforestation has been under way for some time.  The work will be done by the Antracite Protective Association and the state working together."   (Harrisburg Telegraph)

August 30, 1917:   "The Anthracite Forestry Protective Association, composed of the coal, timber, water and land companies of Northeastern Pennsylvania, will build three fire towers in the Hazelton district at once between Hazelton and Pottsville, Hudsondale and Nesquehoning and on the mountain lying between Wilkes-Barre and Hazelton."   (The Fulton County News)

September 6, 1919:   "An appropriation of $7,200 has been made by the State Forest Commission for the erection of six steel fire towers to be used for observation purposes in central Pennsylvania State forest.  These towers are to be built at once and will be modelled after some of those which have been successfully used in eastern Pennsylvania forest tracts which are privately owned.  It is the beginning of development of a forest fire fighting system of the State government which now has over a million acres of woodland, some of which is just commencing to pay a handsome return."   (Harrisburg Telegraph)

September 26, 1919:   "The first of the steel observation towers authorized by the State Forestry Association as a part of the forest fire protection service in Pennsylvania will be erected within the next six or eight weeks and be put into immediate service.  Some of the material has arrived and it is hoped to push the work so that the towers may be ready in the fall when destructive fires have occurred in State forests because of lack of observation and report facilities.
      The first towers will be erected in the following locations:
Near Coudersport in Hebron township, Potter county;
near Galeton in Pike township, Potter county;
west of Austin in Portage township, Potter county;
near Ansonia in Shippen township, Tioga county;
near Tamarack, Leidy township, Clinton county;
near pump house in Brown township, Lycoming county,
and on Big Poe Mountain, Coburn township, Centre county.
​      These towers will be 60 feet high and located on high ground covering districts for miles around.  They will have enclosed cabins.
      State Forestry officials will endeaver to increase the number of such observation towers as rapidly as possible.  It is figured out that there should be a dozen more provided if funds are available.
      There are several fire observation towers operated in conjunction with the Anthracite Protective Association, composed of coal companies owning large tracts of timberland in Schuylkill and Luzerne counties."   (Harrisburg Telegraph)

​September 1925:
  "It appears that although Maine was the first State to make an effort along this line, private observation towers were constructed as far back as the eighties.  A memorandum from Mr. George Wirt, Chief Forest Fire Warden of Pennsylvania, is interesting in this respect:
      'Back in the 1880's while Albert Lewis was conducting his lumbering operations in the neighborhood of Bear Creek, Luzerne County, he established a lookout station on one of the highest houses near his lumber town of Bear Creek.  During the fire season one of his men was stationed on the top of this house with a horn or megaphone and whenever he observed smoke anywhere in the neighborhood of the operations he notified the people of the village and they in turn the lumber crews and a prompt attack was made upon the fire.' "   (The Forest Worker)

October 1925:   "Pennsylvania's primary forest fire tower system now includes 114 lookout points, of which 110 are steel towers.  The State owns all but four of these.  One belongs to the U.S. Forest Service, one to a railroad, ans one to a coal company."   (The Forest Worker)

​1929:

The following is from the Foresters' Conference of February 5 and 6, 1929, held in the Senate Caucus Room, Harrisburg, Pa.

Pennsylvania's Forest Observation Tower System, Presented by H.E. Clepper:

      "What were probably the first observation stations in Pennsylvania for the protection of State forest land were constructed on the South Mountains in Franklin county in 1903.  Tall trees on the higher points of ridges were selected, pieces of wood were nailed on them to form ladders, the tops were cut out, and in some cases temporary platforms were built in the tree tops.

      In 1905 a forty-foot wooden tower with an open platform was erected on a mountain near Mont Alto.  During the following nine years a few more temporary wooden structures were erected in various parts of the states, but for the most part the early foresters took advantage of whatever they found available that could be used for observation stations, and the tree top look-outs continued to be their principle reliance for forest fire detection

      In 1914 this Department erected its first steel towers.  These were fifty feet high, with open platforms on top, but only four were erected.  Three years later the State built two steel towers equipped with enclosed tops and ladders.  These and all subsequent towers were equipped with telephone instruments connected with the forester's office and some forest fire wardens.  The open top tower was not satisfactory, in that the observer was exposed to high winds and cold and could not possibly stay on the platform for very long periods.  It became necessary to adopt some type of tower with an enclosed top, which would provide greater comfort for the observer.

       The passage of a State compensation law led to a consideration of the possibility of State employees falling from the ladders of these towers, and the fact that the public began to use these towers suggested a change in the type of construction to insure greater safety.  Instead of using a ladder to mount the tower, it was found desirable to erect only towers equipped with stairs and guard rails.  Towers purchased in 1919 and 1921 were of this type; many of these towers were sixty feet in height, of galvanized steel with enclosed cabins on top.  Incidentally, by experience, it was found that to build wooden towers of the same height was fully as expensive, and the wooden ones had the added drawback of needing paint more often.

​      Each top tower cabin is furnished with a telephone, permitting communication with the forester, forest rangers, or forest fire wardens.  Most of the towers now have installed in the top cabin an iron table with movable top, upon which is mounted a circular map showing the territory under observation by the towerman.  This map is covered with plate glass, and centered in the map is a movable instrument called an alidade, which indicates on a circular scale on the map the azimuth bearing of the observed fire.

      Each towerman is supplied with a pair of field glasses and various blank forms upon which he keeps a complete record of reported forest fires, and such other records as humidity and temperature.

      Near the foot of the towers are small cabins, in which the towermen stay when not on observation duty.  These cabins are usually equipped with stoves, cots, mattresses, tables, chairs, cooking utensils and dishes.  Fire tools are stored therein.  In the cabins on the ground there are no telephones, but instead a call bell is installed,  If the telephone in the top tower cabin rings when he is on the ground, he will hear the call but will have to mount the tower in order to answer the telephone.  This arrangement acts as a precaution against the possibility of the towerman failing to be on the top of the tower when he should be there, and guards against his making reports from the ground instead of from the point where fires should be observed.

      The average cost of Pennsylvania's forest tower observation stations, fully equipped, is approximately $1,500 each.  The State's total investment in tower stations is approximately $141,000.  Approximately 1,000 miles of telephone line connect the towers with commercial telephone companies, of which the Department of Forests and Waters maintains approximately 800 miles.

      During the early growth of Pennsylvania's observation tower system it was believed that towers fifty feet in height were satisfactory, if placed upon a high knob.  Later it was found that a tower sixty feet in height permitted more satisfactory observation, and accordingly the majority of the towers constructed in recent years are of the sixty foot type.  Experiments conducted by agencies in other states and within our own state show that sixty foot towers have advantages over fifty towers, and that eighty foot towers are greatly superior to the sixty foot type.  Accordingly, several eighty foot structures were erected during the past two years, and these almost immediately proved their worth over the lower types.  Reports show that the efficiency of eleven towers could be greatly increased if they were increased in height to eighty feet."

(Foresters. Conference, February 5 and 6, 1929)  Bulletin 39, Department of Forests and Waters

March 1929:   "Seven 80-foot steel lookout towers were erected in 1928 by the Pennsylvania Department of Forests and Waters."   (The Forest Worker)
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