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A tree with observation post 30 feet above the ground established prior to 1918
1907: A tree observation post 40 feet above the ground was established.
August 16, 1922: "The first fire tower to be erected in Dauphin county will go up in Middle Paxton township, near Rattling Run. This is in the centre of a large wooded district and along the line of the Reading Railway's Schuylkill and Susquehanna branch. The tower will be so located that it will sweep many of the valleys and the control of large areas will be easy." (Reading Eagle)
An unimproved bald top observation point established prior to 1918.
1914: A tree observation post 50 feet above the ground was established.
1910: A 30-foot wood tower was constructed.
An unimproved bald top observation point established prior to 1918.
1921: A 60-foot steel tower was erected.
October 12, 1932: "Almost 400 men, directed by Sheriff Ira McClosky, started searching the mountains in Girard township today for Byron Liegey, aged, 60, watchman at the Knobs fire tower, who has been missing from his home since Sunday.
Notes left by the man, who took a rifle, when he left his home, indicated he contemplated suicide, police said. Before leaving he telephoned Forester William Buck, saying he was resigning his position and was going away." (Altoona Mirror)
December 2, 1932: "Disappearance of Byron Liegey, formerly stationed at a fire tower, near here, was solved today after discovery of his body in the mountains late Thursday.
Liegey apparently had killed himself with a rifle, according to authorities who carried the body for two miles over steep hills last night. Lloyd Lansberry, Woodland, Pa., deer hunter, found the body wedged between two rocks.
Liegey had been missing since last October 9. He left a note in the tower, saying he was 'going away.' Two hundred men searched the woods for several days in a futile attempt to find him." (Huntingdon Daily News)
A tree observation post 40 feet above the ground established prior to 1918.
1979: The lookout structure was removed.
1913: A tree observation post 30 feet above the ground.
A tree observation post 30 feet above ground established prior to 1918.
1914: A three legged tower constructed using three trees that were limbed and a platform connecting the tops. Possibly one of six lookout sites located on the Kishacoquillas State Forest.
1917: A 50-foot wood tower was constructed.
1915: A 25-foot tower was built.
July 1933: "A 60-foot tower now standing on Bald Knob, Huntingdon County, is to be moved to a site near Tyrone and increased to 80 feet in height." (The Forest Worker)
1972: The lookout structure was removed.
An unimproved bald top observation point established prior to 1918.
1899: A 30-foot wood tower built for the surveying of the surrounding country, was also found useful for the detection of fires.
1913-14: A tree observation post 100 feet above the ground was established.
1916: A 36-foot wood tower was erected.
1913: A tree observation point 20 feet above the ground was established.
March 18, 1943: The cost of vandalism was demonstrated last month when a final payment was made for damaging a forest fire observation tower and cabin and stealing a pair of binoculars used by the towerman. George H. Wirt, Chief Forest Fire Warden of the Department of Forests and Waters said today.
Four young men in a dilapidated auto journeyed to the Whittimore Hill fire observation tower located near Emporium, Cameron county. They damaged the cabin, wrecked the furniture, broke the stove, broke the trap door to the tower, demolished windows and stole a pair of binoculars.
The four youths, ranging from sixteen to nineteen years of age, were apprehended, and pleaded guilty to malicious mischief. As a result they were placed on probation for one year and each one of them was fined $50 and costs. They were also required to reimburse the State for the damage, the payment to be made in installments. They paid the final installment last month." (McKean County Democrat)
1914: A 40-foot wood tower was erected.
An unimproved bald top observation point established prior to 1918.
January 10, 1924: "J.C. Beatty of Uniontown, a forestry inspector, was here Thursday in an effort to start a movement to raise $200 to complete a telephone line from the fire tower on Work's Hill to Monarch where it will connect with the Bell Telephone Company wires.
The tower on Work's hill is completed and the cabin is about finished. Some of the telephone poles are erected but there are no further funds for the work and the last Legislature made no appropriation toward it. The line is already half up but is entirely useless unless it can be extended to Monarch so that if the towerman should detect a fire the message could be quickly be telephoned to some fire warden near that place, while without the telephone line the tower is useless. The Work Hill tower covers the portion of mountain between the National Pike and across the Westmoreland county line.
When the line is completed a man while be kept at the tower at all times during the dangerous season. Mr. Beatty said he thought if the people of Connellsville and vicinity knew what great service could be rendered for $200 it would not be hard to raise the sum. He said he thought if $150 were contributed he might be able to secure the remainder himself. He asked that contributions be sent either to The Courier office or to him at his residence in Uniontown." (The Weekly Courier)
March 4, 1924: "S.L. Kurtz of Ligonier, assistant to District Forester V.M. Boarer (sp), and J.C. Beatty of Uniontown, fire inspector, were in Connellsville yesterday in an effort to raise a fund of $150 toward the expense of completing a line to the fire cabin erected last fall on Work hill, along the Uniontown road. Poles have been unloaded for the distance, a mile and a half, but the forestry department is without funds for setting them. The lookout station is useless without a telephone, which would be connected with the Bell line at Monarch." (The Daily Courier)
1916: A tree observation post 50 feet above ground was established.
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