TRAVELERS INSURANCE BUILDING
Hartford
Connecticut - Hartford County
Connecticut - Hartford County
December 29, 1923: "Plans of far-reaching importance looking to the prevention of forest fires and the loss of trees through theft were made at the first annual meeting of the newly formed Talcott Mountain Protective association in the office of State Forester Austin F. Hawes, this afternoon.
The association was organized last fall under the auspices of the State Forestry department. It includes in its membership about fifty men and women who control and own 11,013 acres of woodland in West Hartford, Simsbury, Avon, Farmingham and Bloomfield.
The tower of the Travelers Insurance company will be used as a lookout station for forest fires during the dry months which begin in the middle of March and continue until Thanksgiving Day.
The association ---t was forecast is the first of a number that will be organized by the State Forestry department in different parts of the state. Eventually this association, as well as the other associations that are expected to come into being, will undertake reforestation work, supplementing the activities of the State Forest department in that direction." (The Bridgeport Telegram)
The association was organized last fall under the auspices of the State Forestry department. It includes in its membership about fifty men and women who control and own 11,013 acres of woodland in West Hartford, Simsbury, Avon, Farmingham and Bloomfield.
The tower of the Travelers Insurance company will be used as a lookout station for forest fires during the dry months which begin in the middle of March and continue until Thanksgiving Day.
The association ---t was forecast is the first of a number that will be organized by the State Forestry department in different parts of the state. Eventually this association, as well as the other associations that are expected to come into being, will undertake reforestation work, supplementing the activities of the State Forest department in that direction." (The Bridgeport Telegram)
1924: "The offer of the Travelers Insurance Company to allow the use of its tower in Hartford and the co-operation of the watchman in reporting fires in 1924 will therefore be very helpful. This tower is 527 feet high and commands a splendid view of the Connecticut valley from Massachusetts line to Middletown, and surrounding country. Altogether between 350 and 400 square miles of farm and forest land are visible from this tower in clear weather." (The Work of a Forest Protective Association)
April 23, 1924: "The highest fire lookout station in New England is in the heart of the Connecticut state capital. It is located at the top of the Travelers Insurance Company Building in Hartford, where the lookout can see 250,000 acres of Connecticut woodlands." (The Wellsboro Agitator)
July 17, 1924: "The highest fire lookout station in New England is in the heart of the Connecticut state capital, on an office building in Hartford." (Haswell Herald - Colorado)