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Beebe Hill Fire Tower
US
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New York
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Beebe Hill State Forest
Columbia County, New York
Elevation:
1726'
Coordinates:
N42.33589 W73.486148
Administrative Unit:
NY Dept. of Environmental Conservation
Cooperators:
New York Dept. of Environmental Conservation and the Forest Fire Lookout Association
Date Certified:
12/15/1997
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Link to the website for the Beebe Hill Chapter and the fire tower restoration: beebehill.info
This is the third site that this fire tower has stood upon. In 1928 the Taconic State Park Commission erected the Aermotor LS-40 60' tower on Alander Mtn., just barely within the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, for the sole purpose of detecting fires on park land. In 1930 the area at Alander Mtn. burned, and the land owner asked for the tower to be removed. The tower was dismantled by Park staff and stored at the High Falls facility in the park. The Park re-erected the tower on Washburn Mtn., within the park boundaries, in 1933. Operation of the tower was turned over to Forest Fire Control about 1935 and was actively operated there until 1963. In November of 1963 the tower was dismantled by Forest Rangers and transported by helicopter to the Beebe Hill site and re-erected. The tower was actively operated at Beebe Hill until it was closed in 1987.
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