Mount Irvine

Mount Irvine, a mountain in New York’s Southern Tier in Carrollton northwest of Limestone, is chiefly remembered for its place in Alleghany State Park’s early fire-detection system. In 1928, the Conservation Department’s Division of State Parks built a sixty-foot Aermotor LS40 steel fire lookout tower there. By year’s end, the park had five operating towers, with principal towers on Mount Irvine, Mount Tuscarora, and Summit, plus towers at Red House and Bova Mountain. Although many park towers shifted to Forest Fire Control in 1931, Mount Irvine remained under park jurisdiction for staffing during high fire danger before the tower was moved that same year to Science Hill near the Pennsylvania border.

Carrollton, New York · United States