Loon Lake Mountain Fire Observation Station
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Loon Lake Mountain Fire Observation Station is a historic fire observation station
located on Loon Lake Mountain at Loon Lake (Franklin County, New York)
in Franklin County, New York
. The station and contributing resources include a 35 feet (10.7 m), steel-frame lookout tower erected in 1917; it has been abandoned since 1971. The tower is a prefabricated structure built by the Aermotor Corporation and provided a front line of defense in preserving the Adirondack Forest Preserve from the hazards of forest fires.
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places
in 2008.
Fire lookout tower
A fire lookout tower, fire tower or lookout tower, provides housing and protection for a person known as a "fire lookout" whose duty it is to search for wildfires in the wilderness...
located on Loon Lake Mountain at Loon Lake (Franklin County, New York)
Loon Lake (Franklin County, New York)
Loon Lake is a hamlet on the east side of Loon Lake in the north east region of the Adirondack Park 20 miles north east of Saranac Lake and 25 miles north of Lake Placid in New York State....
in Franklin County, New York
Franklin County, New York
Franklin County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2010 census, the population was 51,599. It is named in honor of American Founding Father Benjamin Franklin...
. The station and contributing resources include a 35 feet (10.7 m), steel-frame lookout tower erected in 1917; it has been abandoned since 1971. The tower is a prefabricated structure built by the Aermotor Corporation and provided a front line of defense in preserving the Adirondack Forest Preserve from the hazards of forest fires.
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places is the United States government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation...
in 2008.