SKAMANIA COUNTY
FRENCH BUTTE
Gifford Pinchot National Forest
10N-7E-15
10N-7E-15
June 6, 1929: A tower to be erected in July and August. (Centralia Daily Chronicle)
June 9, 1929: "It is planned to erect towers at the following points in the Randle district during July and August: Hamilton Buttes, French Butte and sunrise butte. Fire finders will be installed in each tower." (The Sunday Oregonian)
July 26, 1929: "James Green is packing lookout houses now to stations where needed. He left with one for French Butte station the latter part of last week." (The Chehalis Bee-Nugget)
August 2, 1929: "The forest service has men at work building lookout houses. At present they are putting one at French Butte." (The Chehalis Bee-Nugget)
August 15, 1953: "French Butte---a lofty rock promontory that commands a view of the long Iron Creek valley where the Kosmos Timber Co., a subsidiary of U.S. Plywood, is doing some logging. Keeping solitary watch there in his tiny cabin was Seymour Rubak of New York City, a graduate student in sociology at Washington State College. From this dizzy height we look directly down on the camp, 4,000 feet below." (Longview Daily News)
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