Contributed by Maine Forest Service
Description
Jim Haynes, the Forest Service fire watchman at Mitchell Mountain in Haynesville in 1920.
The wood fire observation tower was built in 1918 at a height of 36-feet. A steel tower of the same height replaced it in 1927.
About This Item
- Title: Jim Haynes, Mitchell Mountain, 1920
- Creation Date: 1920
- Subject Date: 1920
- Location: Haynesville, Aroostook County, ME
- Media: Photographic print
- Dimensions: 13.8 cm x 8 cm
- Object Type: Image
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- Fire lookouts--Maine
- Forest fires--Detection--Maine
- Safety
- Fire lookout stations--Maine--Haynesville
- Fire prevention--Maine
- Watchmen--Maine--Haynesville
- Mitchell Mountain (Me.)
- Maine. Bureau of Forestry--Facilities
- Maine. Bureau of Foresty--Employees
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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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