New Hampshire Fire Towers
Mount Shaw Tower


Mount Shaw Tower
(Photo courtesy Iris Baird)

 

Town: Moultonboro
County: Carroll
Mountain or Hill: Mount Shaw
Height above sea level: 2585 FT
Tower Structure Height: 60'
Latitude: 43-44-51
Longitude: 71-16-41
First date of operation: 1916
Operating Agency: NH Forestry Service
Type: Wood Tower


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Notes

  • 1916-1922.
  • T. S. Plant, the landowner gave the state permission to establish a lookout on a 60' tower, one of several on his estate. After the estate changed hands the area it covered was overlooked by stations on W. Royce, Speckled (in Maine) and Carrigain.

 


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