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Pennsylvania - Warren County - Allegheny National Forest
March 2, 1921: "H.B. Rowland, forester for the Northwestern Allegheny division spent a few days in the forests in Forest and Warren counties belonging to Wheeler and Dusenbury, in interest of fire protection. Plans are being laid for a wooden forest fire tower." (Titusville Herald)
April 1, 1921: "District Forester L.B. Rowland, of Warren in a report to the Pennsylvania Department of Forestry, states that plans have practically been completed for the building of a fire tower upon the lands of Wheeler & Dusenbury, in the lower part of Warren county.
An observer will be located in this tower during the dry season in order to locate and detect forest fires starting in that vicinity. The tower will be built and manned under a co-operative agreement between Wheeler & Dusenbury, and the state department of forestry.
Forester Rowland expects that this will be only the first step in such co-operative work and that much can be accomplished along the same line in other parts of the Cornplanter Forest district." (Titusville Herald)
September 5, 1922: "Construction work will start Tuesday Morning on the erection of an 80 foot fire tower on Wheeler and Dusenbury lands in Limestone township in this county. The tower will be used by the forest rangers of the state forestry department in the lookout for forest fires. The usual fire tower erected in this state is 60 feet in height." (The Republican Press - New York)
September 7, 1922: "The state forestry department of Pennsylvania has begun the erection of the first fire tower to be placed in Warren county, which will be placed on the Wheeler & Dusenbury farm in Watson township. This farm is situated on the Tidioute and Cherry Grove road and is occupied by Wilkie Stanford. The location of the tower is on one of the highest points in that section and will give a view in clear weather for a radius of fifteen miles. From this tower the next nearest tower, near Marienville, sixteen to eighteen miles distant, can be picked up with glasses, and from the Marienville tower the one near Ridgway is discernible. When the Warren county tower is completed the forestry department will be enabled to locate most of the forest fires in this part of the state within a few minutes of their outbreak and by so doing have fire-fighters on the scene within a few hours." (Titusville Herald)
October 26, 1922: "Several surveying crews will soon be put to work laying out and surveying the forest lands which were recently approved for purchase by the forest commission. L.L. Bishop in charge of the newly created Allegheny National forest says that a busy winter will be put in by the surveyors. Work on the new fire tower on Wheeler and Dusenbury lands is going forward rapidly and the concrete base has been completed ready to put up the steel which will arrive next week. The tower will be the highest in the state and will be 80 feet from base to the top. On the top will be a hut with a ranger constantly on duty during the fire season." (Cattaraugus Republican)
March 22, 1924: "Andrew Marfink, of Cherry Grove, will be stationed in the forest lookout tower at Wheeler." (The Warren Tribune)