Mount_Adams_Fire_Observation_Station

Mount Adams Fire Observation Station

Mount Adams Fire Observation Station

United States historic place

The Mount Adams Fire Observation Station is a historic fire observation station located on Mount Adams at Newcomb in Essex County, New York. The station and contributing resources include a 56-foot-tall (17 m), steel frame lookout tower erected in 1917, a foot trail leading up the 3,250 foot summit, and the 1922 observers cabin with shed and privy. The tower is a prefabricated structure built by the Aermotor Corporation to provide a front line of defense in preserving the Adirondack Park from the hazards of forest fires.[2]

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It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.[1]

References

  1. [1]
    "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  2. [2]
    unnamed (n.d.). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Mount Adams Fire Observation Station". New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. Retrieved 2010-07-17.


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