Forest Service watchmen, Cooper Hill, Cooper, ca. 1919
Contributed by Maine Forest Service
Description
Two Forest Service employees, Allen and Oscar Sadler, at the watch station at Cooper Hill in about 1919.
A wood fire watch tower was built on the mountain in 1913 and rebuilt in 1925. A steel tower, using steel from the Naval Radio Tower in Bar Harbor, went up in 1937.
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