Project type: Fire Lookouts, Forestry and Agriculture
Started: 1934
Quality of Information: Moderate
Marked:
No
Site Survival: No Longer Extant
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Description
The Forest Service fire lookout tower on Washington Bald Mountain, built in 1918, was an enclosed wood type and was 55-feet high. It was replaced in 1934 with a 70-foot steel tower constructed by the Indian Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) out of the Passamaquoddy camp.
The tower was dismantled in 2007.
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Source notes
Annual Report of the Forest Commissioner of the State of Maine
Project originally submitted by Andrew Laverdiere on January 21, 2016.
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