Martha's Vineyard Loc 59A

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Located on the steel girder Tisbury Fire Tower (not a fire control tower) for watching forest fires. Built in 1930, this tower was 68 feet tall and located on a 65-foot hill in an area called the Great Plains. This tower was used for the Antiaircraft Artillery Intelligence Service (AAIS) OP until 1944 when the tower was dismantled and brought to West Falmouth to replace the Fire Tower at Loc 58A in 1946. Loc 58A was also only for the AAIS.

capecodfd.com 2005
capecodfd.com 2005

Tower Location:41.4167° N, 70.6175° W.

SOURCES and REFERENCES

https://capecodfd.com/

CDSG News November 1989

https://www.firelookout.org/lookouts/ma/tisbury.htm