Cairo Skywatch Tower
Cairo Skywatch Tower | |
 Cairo Skywatch Tower, October 2008 | |
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| Location | County Road 850N at County Road 100W at Cairo, Tippecanoe Township, Tippecanoe County, Indiana |
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| Coordinates | 40°32′26″N 86°55′30″W / 40.54056°N 86.92500°W |
| Area | 0 acres (0 ha) |
| Built | 1952 |
| NRHP reference No. | 02000202[1] |
| Added to NRHP | March 21, 2002 |
Cairo Skywatch Tower, also known as Delta Lima 3 Green Ground Observation Tower, is a historic watchtower located in Tippecanoe Township, Tippecanoe County, Indiana. It was built in 1952, and is a 40-foot tall wooden structure. It once had a glass-enclosed office. It was the first officially commissioned rural skywatch tower by the United States Air Force's Civilian Ground Observation Corps under the Operation Skywatch program.[2]: 5–6 In 1959, after the dissolution of the Civilian Ground Observation Corps, the watchtower was also abandoned.[3]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ "Indiana State Historic Architectural and Archaeological Research Database (SHAARD)" (Searchable database). Department of Natural Resources, Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology. Retrieved July 1, 2016. Note: This includes John M. Harris; Angela Bowen; Ben Ross (July 2001). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Cairo Skywatch Tower" (PDF). Retrieved July 1, 2016. and Accompanying photographs
- ^ Poletika, Nicole (April 7, 2016). ""Wake Up! Sign Up! Look Up!:" Indiana and the Ground Observer Corps". The Indiana History Blog. Retrieved June 5, 2024.
