Blue Mountain, Indian Lake, New York. County/parish: Hamilton.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places September 23, 2001. NRIS 01001035.
Part of Fire Observation Stations of New York State Forest Preserve MPS (NRIS 64500449).
1 contributing site. 2 contributing structures. 1 contributing object.
The Blue Mountain Fire Observation Station is a historic fire observation station located on Blue Mountain at Indian Lake in Hamilton County, New York. The station includes a 35-foot-tall (11 m), steel frame lookout tower built in 1917, an observer's cabin built in 1975, the remains of three observer's cabins, remains of a radar station built in the 1960s, and remnants of telephone lines along the foot trail. There are four contributing resources: the tower, trail, remnants of a 1949 observer's cabin, and 1890s stone benchmark. The tower is a prefabricated structure built by the Aermotor Corporation and provided a front line of defense in preserving the Adirondack Forest Preserve from the hazards of forest fires.
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75313100