The first Forestry Commission lookout tower was built in 1930 near Camden by the Civilian Conservation Corps. ⁠The tower network eventually included more than 130 towers and was used for 65 years to ...
Fire towers (also known as lookouts) go back thousands of years. The oldest lookout still standing is the Tuztoromy Firewatch Tower in Sopron, Hungary, which was built in the 13th century and ...