CEMENT RIDGE FIRE TOWER


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The original Cement Ridge fire lookout was built between 1911 and 1913. At that time it was a one-room log cabin with a shingle roof. In 1921, a crow’s nest with a glassed-in house was constructed. A new lookout was built by the Civilian Conservations Corps and finished in 1941.


Decimal Degrees: 44.3547455, -104.0752748

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