NORWAY BLUFF
Maine - Piscataquis County - Maine Forestry District
1914: "During the past summer there has been built on Norway Bluff, Township 9, Range 9, a 24 foot steel lookout tower; a camp built on the side of the mountain for the watchman; four miles of telephone wire hung to connect with the Maine Forestry District wire at Munsungan Lake, giving the man on Norway Bluff lookout telephone connection with Oxbow Plantation. There has also been hung on the lower end of the Aroostook River telephone line line three miles of wire; connecting with Libby Hotel, at Oxbow Plantation, giving the lookout man on Norway Bluff connection at two places." (1914 Forest Commissioner's Report)
November 15, 1916: "J.E. Junkins of Ashland, chief fire warden for the Aroostook and Big Machias River territory, writes the department as follows:
'The improvements made during the past year include the clearing of the trees off Norway Bluff, with the result that one can see the surrounding country without being obliged to go on the tower. The telephone line at Monsungan Lake has been shifted from the lake shore to the tote road so that it would not get down to the water. The telephone ought to be placed next year on the steel tower on Norway Bluff and a telephone laid from Ashland to Machais Lake." (Daily Kennebec Journal)
March 5, 1920: (1919) "We took down and cut out all the bad connections on the Munsungan line and soldered all the connections from Oxbow Flat to Norway Bluff Lookout. The telephone service through my territory was excellent during the past season." (Daily Kennebec Journal) (Fire Wardens Report)
1920: Inventory shows a 24-foot steel tower.
May 2012: The Maine Forest Service dismantled the tower, the structure will be restored and erected at the Ashland Logging Museum.
July 7, 2013: Dedication ceremonies to be held for the reassembled Norway Bluff tower at the Ashland Logging Museum.