This tower right on the AT dates to 1922, one of 21 manned fire towers in New Jersey. Cheaper than using observers in airplanes. They still use land phone lines to call in fires since those are most reliable. Learned all this chatting with the very friendly fire warden, who no doubt gets lonely sitting up here 8 hours a day scanning the horizon for smoke. At one point when I was young I thought of this as a dream job.
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