NEW YORK LOOKOUTS
PROSPECT MOUNTAIN
Warren County
July 1910: A lookout was established atop a 35 foot tower on this point at a cost of $107.16. (Sixteenth Annual Report of the Forest, Fish and Game Commission - 1910)
July 11, 1915: "Both of the Lake George observers are woodsmen of lifelong training and well-fitted for their work. Adelbert Brown, the Prospect Mountain observer, might be said to be roughing it 'de lux' having for his shelter the hotel located at the top of the mountain. He has his choice of some fifty rooms, for the hotel has not been opened since the cable railway by which it was reached was destroyed. The cupola of the hotel forms his lookout station and is visited each summer by such visitors are survive the two-hour climb up the rough trail from Lake George village.
Despite the dearth of human visitors Brown does not lack company, for his home appears to be favorite summering place for large numbers of porcupines. He has five of these to his credit, and expects to collect the bounty offered for these the next time he drops in at the village. From his elevation of 2,500 feet above the lake level he states that the crops seem to be doing well in Massachusetts and New Hampshire." (Buffalo Courier)
1932: "Prospect Mountain tower was a necessary replacement of a former building, the top of which has served as a lookout for many years." Also a new cabin was constructed for the observer's living quarters. (Twenty-Second Annual Report of the Conservation Department - 1932)
1932: "Prospect Mountain tower was a necessary replacement of a former building, the top of which has served as a lookout for many years." Also a new cabin was constructed for the observer's living quarters. (Twenty-Second Annual Report of the Conservation Department - 1932)
July 25, 1940: "C.C.C. youths this weekend began sinking holes for poles for a new state telephone line from the village to the summit of Prospect mountain to connect the fire tower with the U.S. Army air defense command in Watertown, preparatory to the army maneuvers." (Plattsburgh Daily Press)
July 25, 1940: "C.C.C. youths this weekend began sinking holes for poles for a new state telephone line from the village to the summit of Prospect mountain to connect the fire tower with the U.S. Army air defense command in Watertown, preparatory to the army maneuvers." (Plattsburgh Daily Press)
March 26, 1953: "Governor Dewey's approval of the bill would climax more than 20 years of efforts by Lake George and vicinity groups and individuals to have a road built up Prospect Mountain, from the top of which there is an unsurpassed view of the lake and Adirondack Mountains. Some 2,000 persons a year climb the mountain on foot to enjoy the view.
The State Conservation Department has a fire observation tower at the summit of the 2,200-foot mountain. It stands near the point where, more than 50 years ago, there was a thriving hotel, reached by horse and buggy over a rough and steep mountain road or by cable car up an incline railroad." (Adirondack Record-Elizabethtown Post)
March 26, 1953: "Governor Dewey's approval of the bill would climax more than 20 years of efforts by Lake George and vicinity groups and individuals to have a road built up Prospect Mountain, from the top of which there is an unsurpassed view of the lake and Adirondack Mountains. Some 2,000 persons a year climb the mountain on foot to enjoy the view.
The State Conservation Department has a fire observation tower at the summit of the 2,200-foot mountain. It stands near the point where, more than 50 years ago, there was a thriving hotel, reached by horse and buggy over a rough and steep mountain road or by cable car up an incline railroad." (Adirondack Record-Elizabethtown Post)