Almanac: Forest fire lookout towers
And now a page from our “Sunday Morning” Almanac: June 10, 1905, 113 years ago today – the day America’s first forest fire lookout tower went into operation on top of Squaw Mountain in Maine, with 19-year-old William Hilton as its watchman. On June 10, 1905, America’s first forest fire lookout tower went into operation on top of Squaw Mountain…