"ATTENTION! CLIMB AT OWN RISK," Copperhead Fire Tower, Shawnee State Forest, Scioto County, Ohio (2013)

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"ATTENTION! CLIMB AT OWN RISK," Copperhead Fire Tower, Shawnee State Forest, Scioto County, Ohio (2013)

Image courtesy of Andrew Lee Feight, Ph.D., from the Scioto Historical Series, private collection, Friendship, Ohio.

This file appears in: Copperhead Fire Tower

By Andrew Lee Feight, Ph.D.
In 1924, after purchasing the first lands for the creation of the Shawnee State Forest, the Division of Forestry constructed three fire towers in the region to help protect the state's newly acquired resources. Today, at the metal…