Poke-O-Moonshine Mountain Fire Observation Station

Poke-O-Moonshine Mountain, Chesterfield, New York. County/parish: Essex.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places September 23, 2001. NRIS 01001034.

1 contributing site. 3 contributing structures.

From Wikipedia:

Poke-O-Moonshine Mountain Fire Observation Station

The Poke-O-Moonshine Mountain Fire Observation Station is a historic fire lookout tower on Poke-O-Moonshine Mountain at Chesterfield in Essex County, New York. The station and contributing resources include a 40-foot-tall (12 m), steel-frame lookout tower erected in 1917, a jeep trail that extends from the base of the mountain to a point below its summit, the remains of an observer's cabin possibly built by the Civilian Conservation Corps in 1936, and a spring house. The tower is a prefabricated structure built by the Aermotor Windmill Company.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.

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National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75312890

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