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Looking Out: Maine's Fire Towers

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Forest Service lookout tower and camp, Mattamiscontis Mountain, ca. 1920

Forest Service lookout tower and camp, Mattamiscontis Mountain, ca. 1920

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Maine Forest Service

At left is the tower and camp at Mattamiscontis in Penobscot County.

A wood tower was built on the 1,400-foot mountain in 1914. A 48-foot steel tower replaced it in 1917, in which year John Stinchfield was the watchman.

The lookout was discontinued in 1968.


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