Wakely Mountain, Lake Pleasant, New York. County/parish: Hamilton.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places October 03, 2003. NRIS 03000998.
Part of Fire Observation Stations of New York State Forest Preserve MPS (NRIS 64500449).
1 contributing site. 1 contributing structure.Also known as:
The Wakely Mountain Fire Observation Station is a historic fire observation station located on Wakely Mountain at Lake Pleasant in Hamilton County, New York. The station and contributing resources include a 70-foot-tall (21 m), steel-frame lookout tower erected in 1916 and a 3-mile (4.8 km) foot trail that leads down the mountain. The tower is a prefabricated structure built by the Aermotor Corporation. It is one of the initial ten towers purchased by the State Commission to provide 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 2003.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75313104