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Fire lookout · St. Lawrence County, New York

Moosehead Mountain

St. Lawrence County, NY: lookout established 1910, 40-ft Aermotor tower erected 1916, dismantled 1978, re-erected at Industry City, Brooklyn in 2016; original site listed as gone.

The lookout that stood here was moved. Now at Industry City

Moved: The structure was moved. The map shows where it stands now; the timeline says where it came from. FFLA lists the Moosehead Mountain site as Tower Gone; the tower was dismantled in 1978 and re-erected in Brooklyn (Industry City) in 2016

Visit & stay

Not rentable. As far as we know, this lookout cannot be booked for overnight stays.

Access

Open to the public. Stands in a courtyard on the Industry City campus; The Todd Group, a landscape contractor that installed one of Industry City's courtyards, says the campus has three public courtyards

Can you climb it?
No
Road to the top?
Unknown
Staffing
Unknown

Facts

Status
Moved
Type
Cab on a towerAermotor LS-25 steel tower, 40 feet, with external ladder access (erected 1916)The design: Aermotor
Built of
SteelGoing by its design; no source says so in words.
Built
1910
Height
40 ft (12.2 m)
Elevation
Unknown
Agency
Unknown
Land
Unknown
Location
St. Lawrence County, New York
Coordinates
44.30007, −74.68558
Registers
Not on a lookout register
This entry
VerifiedResearched, then checked independently. Updated 10 Oct 2026.
Firefinder id
us-ny-moosehead-mountain

View from the cab

What you see from the cab: every ridge out to about 93 miles, the named peaks in sight, and other fire lookouts within view, worked out from terrain data in your browser.

The structure was moved. This view is from the position Firefinder shows for this record, at its recorded height.

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History

Then and now

  1. 1909 EventState fire superintendents decided to add a lookout at Moosehead Mountain (October 7, 1909)Source: easternuslookouts.weebly.com
  2. 1910 BuiltA lookout was established atop a 20-foot tower at a cost of $442.26Source: easternuslookouts.weebly.com
  3. 1911 StaffedW.D. Pond appointed forest observer for the fire season at $60 a monthSource: easternuslookouts.weebly.com
  4. 1916 BuiltA 40-foot Aermotor LS-25 steel tower with external ladder access was erectedSource: easternuslookouts.weebly.com
  5. No record between 1916 and 1950
  6. 1950 StaffedMrs. Pearl Eakins of Conifer to be observer again; described as the only woman observer in Northern New YorkSource: easternuslookouts.weebly.com
  7. No record between 1950 and 1978
  8. 1978 RemovedDismantled by a private party and stored for later re-assemblySource: easternuslookouts.weebly.com
  9. No record between 1978 and 2016
  10. 2016 RebuiltRe-erected in Brooklyn in October 2016Source: firelookout.org
  11. 2016 MovedMoved to a courtyard at Industry City, BrooklynSources: firelookout.org, nysffla.org, thetoddgroupinc.com
  12. 2016 RestoredRefurbished by Dave Vana of Davana LLC before re-erectionSource: nysffla.org
  13. Date unknown MovedThe lookout was moved to Industry City.Source: FFLA
  14. TodayMovedThe structure was moved. The map shows where it stands now; the timeline says where it came from. When it came down is not recorded.

Old maps of this spot

USGS topographic maps from the years a lookout stood may show it, often as a small symbol labelled “Lookout”. See the old topo maps around it on the Firefinder map, or find every scanned sheet of this spot on USGS TopoView (click the spot there to list them, with dates and downloads).

Story

Researched 10 Oct 2026, fact-checked.

Moosehead Mountain, northwest of Piercefield in St. Lawrence County, got a fire lookout in 1910.1 In October 1909 the state's fire superintendents had decided to build one there, to back up six stations in the Adirondacks and three in the Catskills.1 The first tower was 20 feet tall and cost $442.26.1

A 40-foot Aermotor LS-25 steel tower with external ladder access went up in 1916.1 A 2016 state newsletter called the tower 100 years old, which fits that later structure.2

Forest observers worked the mountain during the fire season.1 In July 1911 W.D. Pond was appointed to it at $60 a month.1 In 1950 a newspaper reported that Mrs. Pearl Eakins would again be on the mountain, and named her the sole woman observer in Northern New York.1

In 1978 a private party dismantled the tower and stored it for later re-assembly.1 In October 2016 Dave Vana of Davana LLC refurbished it and re-erected it in Brooklyn.3,2

Today the tower stands in a courtyard between warehouses on the Industry City campus.2 The Todd Group, a landscape contractor that installed one of Industry City's courtyards, says the campus has three public courtyards.4 A May 2021 blog post says the tower cannot be climbed, because its lowest flight of stairs has been taken out.5 The Forest Fire Lookout Association lists the Moosehead Mountain site as gone, and no source we read describes what, if anything, remains on the mountain.6

  1. Moosehead Mountain, Forest Lookouts, https://easternuslookouts.weebly.com/moosehead-mountain.html (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
  2. New York State Forest Fire Lookout Association newsletter, November 2016, New York State Forest Fire Lookout Association, https://www.nysffla.org/Newsletters/2016/2016-11.pdf (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
  3. Forest Fire Lookout Association chapter reports, New York, 2016, Forest Fire Lookout Association, https://firelookout.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/cr-ny-2016.pdf (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
  4. Courtyard in the City, The Todd Group, https://www.thetoddgroupinc.com/news/courtyard-in-the-city/ (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
  5. Industry City Fire Tower, Turducken (blog), https://theturducken.blogspot.com/2021/05/industry-city-fire-tower.html (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
  6. New York lookouts, Forest Fire Lookout Association, https://firelookout.org/lookouts/us/ny/ (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩

Sources

  1. Forest Fire Lookout Association (FFLA) - US lookout lists Gave us: name, location, county, type, status, links Forest Fire Lookout Association (firelookout.org) · No licence stated; facts extracted only, no prose copied. · retrieved 8 Oct 2026
  2. FOREST LOOKOUTS -- eastern US (easternuslookouts.weebly.com) Gave us: what it is built of, design, height, links easternuslookouts.weebly.com · No licence stated; facts only (county, coordinates where the page's own map widget gives them, status, height, design hints, register links). The site's own historical quotes, newspaper citations and narrative are not reproduced. · retrieved 8 Oct 2026
  3. Firefinder research Gave us: summary, design, height, status, access, visiting details, dates, links, fact-check Firefinder research (sources cited in the story footnotes) · Our own research notes; each fact cites its source in the lookout's story

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