LOUISIANA LOOKOUTS
DUTCHTOWN
Webster Parish
October 31, 1954: "At the Dutchtown Tower, located on a pine-covered hill a few miles outside Minden, forestry veteran Gus Nathanial White sweeps a practiced eye all day long across a spongy-looking carpet of tree tops which stretches out for seemingly endless miles and fades eventually into a distant blue haze on the horizon.
White, towerman at Dutchtown for seven years, lives just across the road in a state-provided home. He begins his day with the sun. Once he has clambered up the rungs to the small, six-foot-square cabin atop the tower, he can spot a column of smoke almost anywhere in Webster Parish and in certain parts of Bossier, Caddo, Claiborne, and Bienville Parished." (The Times)
White, towerman at Dutchtown for seven years, lives just across the road in a state-provided home. He begins his day with the sun. Once he has clambered up the rungs to the small, six-foot-square cabin atop the tower, he can spot a column of smoke almost anywhere in Webster Parish and in certain parts of Bossier, Caddo, Claiborne, and Bienville Parished." (The Times)
DESIGNATION - DUTCHTOWN FIRE TOWER LFC
PID - CQ3022
STATE/COUNTY- LA/WEBSTER
COUNTRY - US
USGS QUAD - LANGSTON (2018)
STATION DESCRIPTION
DESCRIBED BY COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY 1950 (RLE)
THE STATION IS LOCATED ABOUT 7.0 MILES NORTH-NORTHEAST OF
MINDEN ON HIGH WOODED RIDGE. IT IS 100 FEET NORTH OF THE
CENTER OF A ROAD KNOWN AS THE DUTCHTOWN ROAD.
IT IS A 4 LEGGED STEEL STRUCTURE SUPPORTING A CAB WITH AN
OVERALL HEIGHT OF 100 FEET. THE POINT OBSERVED UPON WAS
THE POINT OF THE ROOF AT THE APEX OF THE CAB.
TO REACH THE STATION FROM THE JUNCTION OF U.S. HIGHWAYS 79
AND 80 AT THE NORTHEAST CORNER OF THE POST OFFICE IN MINDEN, GO
NORTHEAST ON U.S. HIGHWAY 79 FOR 0.2 MILE TO JUNCTION WITH
STATE HIGHWAY 66, TURN LEFT AND GO NORTH ON STATE HIGHWAY 66
FOR 5.1 MILES TO CROSSROADS, TURN RIGHT AND GO EAST FOR 1.5
MILES TO CROSSROADS, TURN LEFT AND GO NORTHEAST FOR 0.75 MILE
TO STATION ON THE LEFT AS DESCRIBED.