Snow covered view from Copperhead Fire Tower, looking south, Shawnee State Forest, Scioto County, Ohio (c. 1934)

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Snow covered view from Copperhead Fire Tower, looking south, Shawnee State Forest, Scioto County, Ohio (c. 1934)

Image courtesy of The Ohio State University. Ohio Agricultural Research & Development Center. Wooster OH. Forestry Images Collection.

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…