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DETAIL OF TOWER STAIRWELL AND LANDING - Shawnee Tower, 500 feet north of juncture of Township Roads 222 and 393, Murray City, Hocking County, OH
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Bates, Jeff
Title
DETAIL OF TOWER STAIRWELL AND LANDING - Shawnee Tower, 500 feet north of juncture of Township Roads 222 and 393, Murray City, Hocking County, OH
Depicted place Ohio; Hocking County; Murray City
Date 1996
date QS:P571,+1996-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Dimensions 4 x 5 in.
Current location
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
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HAER OHIO,37-MURCI.V,1-8
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This file comes from the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) or Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS). These are programs of the National Park Service established for the purpose of documenting historic places. Records consist of measured drawings, archival photographs, and written reports.

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  • Significance: It is an unusually well-preserved example of a type of structure that played a vital role in fire prevention efforts in national forests from the 1930s up to the 1970s. The tower was constructed in 1937 by enrollees in the CCC, and emergency relief program that operated from 1933-1942. The tower and its story is typical of CCC operations, but unique to the Wayne National Forest. The tower is highly significant as the only surviving representative of four similar structures built in the forest from 1937-40...
  • Survey number: HAER OH-115
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/oh1794.photos.353468p
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Object location39° 30′ 41″ N, 82° 09′ 49″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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