MISSOURI LOOKOUTS
LONEDELL
Franklin County
Missouri Conservation Commission
41N-2E-3
Missouri Conservation Commission
41N-2E-3
1949-50: 40 acres were acquired for a towersite. (Annual Report of the Missouri Department of Conservation)
August 15, 1963: "District Forester John Kullman reports that the Missouri State Conservation Commission fire tower at Lonedell was vandalized sometime Tuesday, August 6.
The hasp was broken off the door by the vandals and the fire finder was thrown out of the window. About $25 in damage was done." (Sullivan Tri-County News)
June 11, 1964: "The Conservation Commission reports some vandalism at its Lonedell fire tower one day last week. Windows were broken and an electric meter was smashed, along with slight other damage. No trace of the vandals has been found." (Sullivan Tri-County News)
September 9, 1965: "A 17-year-old Weber Hill youth was fined $100.00, plus court costs, and sentenced to six months in the Franklin county jail for maliciously destroying state owned property at the Missouri Conservation Commission's Forest Fire Lookout Tower, two miles east of Lonedell.
Rawlins was arrested August 20 after an investigation revealed that he and four other Jefferson county youths were at the Lookout Tower having a party the night of August 15. Slightly after midnight, Rawlins got into an argument with one of the other youths, a girl, and, in apparent frustration, broke into the tower and started breaking windows, a stool, and a firefinding device. Rawlins did not implicate any of the other youths in the vandalism." (Sullivan Tri-County News)