Thursday, February 18, 2010

South Carolina Fire Towers

Thanks to Rick Shortt, of Wytheville, VA for a great find on a website/blog about hunting South Carolina fire towers:

 
Click above to visit the SC fire tower site

The SC tower website is complete with lots of great lookout photos and some Google maps of SC tower locations - something I haven't seen before but I'm thrilled someone is documenting them.  

While researching for my book, a former Nantahala National Forest district ranger told me that the Albert Mountain lookout near Franklin, NC was moved from South Carolina in 1951 and re-erected in North Carolina.  Attempts by FFLA SC representative Ron Stafford to find a removed tower from SC matching the make and model of the Albert Mountain tower have proven unsuccessful, and its original location remains in doubt.

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