NEW YORK LOOKOUTS
TWADELL POINT
Delaware County
March 25, 1910: "Emery Jenkins was at East Branch on Monday looking over a suitable location for one of the Catskill fire towers to be placed on a high point in that section the coming spring." (Catskill Mountain News)
May 1910: A lookout was established atop a 45 foot tower at a cost of $307.70. (Sixteenth Annual Report of the Forest, Fish and Game Commission - 1910)
April 23, 1914: "The conservation commission announces the following appointment: District No. 5--Twadell Point, Alfred Waterman, East Branch" (The Kingston Daily Freeman)
April 23, 1914: "The conservation commission announces the following appointment: District No. 5--Twadell Point, Alfred Waterman, East Branch" (The Kingston Daily Freeman)
1917: "Seven new cabins were built for observers on mountain stations to replace buildings which had deteriorated and were unfit for further use, one placed on Twadell Point." (Seventh Annual Report of the Conservation Commission)
1919: A steel tower was erected. (9th Annual Report of the Conservation Commission)
July 12, 1924: "Those who think the life of a fire tower watchman must be lonely and humdrum should read the following record of the activities of Alfred Waterman, the fire tower watchman here.
To date this season Mr. Waterman has registered 182 visitors, this being 53 more than at the same time last year. He has reported 12 fires so far and since May 15 he has killed 59 porcupines." (The Kingston Daily Freeman)
1924: "In accordance with the Commission's policy of keeping up the cabins at the observation stations, a new cabin has been erected at Twadell Point." (Conservation Commission Fourteenth Annual Report)
April 1, 1953: "In meeting with Mr. Lowe and Air Force defense officials, the fire observers agreed to scan the skies and report to the Albany Filter Center, starting today. Merton Williams of East Branch is at Twadell Point." (The Oneonta Star)