A great resource for anyone interested in Fire towers is the Forest
Fire Lookout Association: http://www.firelookout.org/about.htm

They have chapter directors and representatives in almost every state.
 One of their duties is to compile inventories of all of the Lookout
Towers in their states.  Beside the towers that are ON the National
Register of Historic Places, there is also a National Historic Lookout
Register: http://www.firetower.org/

Since I have had folks from Ohio and New York contact me.  Here a a
couple of leads.

There are many books on the history of fire towers,  Ray Kresek has
had several versions of his book on the Fire Towers of the Pacific
Northwest: http://www.firelookouts.com/
Ray knows where ALL the lookouts in Washington State are.

Ohio Lookout Towers: http://fisher.osu.edu/%7Epenfield_5/fire/

New York State Lookout Towers: http://www.telenet.net/~ranger/index.htm

I have almost a whole CDs worth of Lookout Towers plans.

This ought to keep you off the streets for the rest of the morning.

:-)

Smoke


On 4/4/07, Edward W. Tennant <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Oh man, that's awesome! I don't suppose someone knows where Kerouac's
> lookout tower in Washington State was located, huh? That would be a cool
> place to look at archaeologically, considering the special place Kerouac
> holds in the minds of many (myself included!).
>
> -Ed
>
> I would like to get together a Symposium for the 2008 SHA Meetings in
> Albuquerque on the subject of Fire Lookout Towers as Archaeological
> sites.  If anyone is interested, please contact me.
>
> I have been waiting for the formal call for papers, which is normally
> out by March 1st and is now over a month late.  Deadline for
> submissions will still probably be June 1st without a late fee.  This
> only gives me a little over a month and a half to cobble this
> together.
>
> Anybody like a "Room with a View"?
>
> Smoke


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Smoke Pfeiffer

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