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mcdude Senior Member Registered: July 2002 Location: Rock Haven Lake - West Newfield, ME Posts: 5,367	Here's another card for you Bear Island Folks. Did (does) Bear Island really have an observatory? (no postmark - Atkinson News Co. - Tilton)
	· Date: Sun July 25, 2004 · Views: 5013 · Filesize: 32.0kb, 672.2kb · Dimensions: 1086 x 697 ·
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Rob
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Registered: April 2004
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Wed July 28, 2004 10:27pm

The tower was built in 1900. It still stands today, as the steeple of St. Johns Church, which was constructed around the tower in 1927. The New Hampshire Fire Towers site states that the Bear Island tower was used as a forest fire lookout.

Rob

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