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Item 19115
Title: Old and new fire lookout towers, Depot Mountain, ca. 1920
Contributed by: Maine Forest Service
Date: circa 1920
Location: T14 R16 WELS
Media: Photograph
Item 19044
Title: Sally Mountain fire tower, 1932
Contributed by: Maine Forest Service
Date: 1932
Location: T5 R1
Media: Photograph
Item 19125
Title: Fire tower, Nulhedus Mountain, ca. 1920
Contributed by: Maine Forest Service
Date: circa 1920
Location: T4 R17 WELS
Media: Photograph
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Looking Out: Maine's Fire Towers
Maine, the most heavily forested state in the nation, had the first continuously operational fire lookout tower, beginning a system of fire prevention that lasted much of the twentieth century.