In partnership with the Maine Memory Network Maine Memory Network

Maine History Online

Maine History Online

A Maine Historical Society Website

Header Graphic

Looking Out: Maine's Fire Towers

Item 5 of 34
Watchman's camp, Depot Mountain, ca. 1920

Watchman's camp, Depot Mountain, ca. 1920

Item 19119 info
Maine Forest Service

M.G. Shaw Lumber built two more towers in 1905, on Attean and Bigelow mountains.

Between 1905 and 1908, owners of forestlands built six more lookout towers in Maine.

At left is the watchman's camp at Depot Mountain. Lookouts generally had cabins for watchmen located lower on the mountain than the tower.