Blue Ridge Fire Towers: Blue Ridge Fire
โ Robert Sorrell
๐ Library
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2015
๐ Arcadia Publishing Inc.
๐ English
<p>Fire lookout towers have graced the highest peaks in the Blue Ridge Mountains for more than a century. Early mountaineers and conservationists began constructing lookouts during the late 1800s. By the 1930s, states and the federal government had built thousands of towers around the country, many