View from Copperhead Fire Tower, looking south, Shawnee State Forest, Scioto County, Ohio (13 April 2011).

ID: 257 ~ Source: Image courtesy of Andrew Feight, Ph.D., from the Scioto Historical Series, private collection, Friendship, Ohio.
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View from Copperhead Fire Tower, looking south, Shawnee State Forest, Scioto County, Ohio (13 April 2011).
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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…