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Makomis Mountain, a one thousand six hundred thirty-one-foot Adirondack peak west of Witherbee, was part of New York’s former fire observation network. An enclosed wooden fire lookout stood there by September 1911 under the Conservation Commission. In 1916, it was replaced with a forty-foot steel Aermotor LL25 tower, originally reached only by an exterior ladder. Safety and access improved when wooden interior steps were added in 1918 or 1919 and replaced in 1933 by a self-supporting staircase inside the tower. The lookout’s fire-detection role ended as aerial observation became common, and operations ceased after the 1970 season. The tower was later removed and restored after its parts were purchased in 2019.
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