Contributed by Maine Forest Service
Description
Two Forest Service employees, Allen and Oscar Sadler, at the watch station at Cooper Hill in about 1919.
A wood fire watch tower was built on the mountain in 1913 and rebuilt in 1925. A steel tower, using steel from the Naval Radio Tower in Bar Harbor, went up in 1937.
About This Item
- Title: Forest Service watchmen, Cooper Hill, Cooper, ca. 1919
- Creation Date: circa 1919
- Subject Date: circa 1919
- Location: Cooper, Washington County, ME
- Media: Photographic print
- Dimensions: 7.8 cm x 13.2 cm
- Object Type: Image
Cross Reference Searches
Standardized Subject Headings
- Watchmen--Maine--Cooper
- Safety
- United States. Forest Service--Employees
- Fire lookouts--Maine--Cooper
- Fire lookout stations--Maine--Cooper
- Fire prevention--Maine
- Firefighting equipment--Maine--Cooper
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Maine Forest ServiceMaine Department of Agriculture, Conservation, and Forestry, 18 Elkins Lane, Harlow Building, 22 State House Station, Augusta, ME 04333-0022
(207) 287-3156
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