Poke-O-Moonshine Mountain Fire Observation Station

	Poke-O-Moonshine Mountain Fire Observation Station
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	Tower in 2008
Location	Poke-O-Moonshine Mountain, Chesterfield, New York
Coordinates	44°23′16″N 73°30′29″W / 44.38778°N 73.50806°W
Area	3.6 acres (1.5 ha)
Built	1917
Architect	Aermotor Corporation
MPS	Fire Observation Stations of New York State Forest Preserve MPS
NRHP reference No.	01001034
Added to NRHP	September 23, 2001

The Poke-O-Moonshine Mountain Fire Observation Station is a historic fire lookout tower on Poke-O-Moonshine Mountain at Chesterfield in Essex County, New York. The station and contributing resources include a 40-foot-tall (12 m), steel-frame lookout tower erected in 1917, a jeep trail that extends from the base of the mountain to a point below its summit, the remains of an observer's cabin possibly built by the Civilian Conservation Corps in 1936, and a spring house. The tower is a prefabricated structure built by the Aermotor Windmill Company.^[2]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.^[1]

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