TEXAS LOOKOUTS
MOUNT ENTERPRISE
Rusk County
Texas Forest Service
Texas Forest Service
June 27, 1936: "A new watch tower has been erected in East Texas by the Texas Forestry Service. The service is a branch of A. & M. College of Texas. The latest tower is located slightly north of Mount Enterprise, in Rusk county. The tower is 100 feet high, its chief purpose is to maintain a lookout for the prevention of forest fires. The station will be manned by R. S. Flanagan, patrolman, and Terrell Collier, assistant.
This tower is one of the 19 watch towers which are now being erected over the state. These lookouts will oversee three and a half million acres of timbered land. The towers will also have telephone which will connect each tower with its neighboring lookout. The hawk-eyes which will man these posts will no doubt save the people of Texas many million dollars annually from the prevention of forest fires which take heavy toll from land-owners each year." (Tyler Morning Telegraph)
This tower is one of the 19 watch towers which are now being erected over the state. These lookouts will oversee three and a half million acres of timbered land. The towers will also have telephone which will connect each tower with its neighboring lookout. The hawk-eyes which will man these posts will no doubt save the people of Texas many million dollars annually from the prevention of forest fires which take heavy toll from land-owners each year." (Tyler Morning Telegraph)
May 25, 1950: "Veteran crewleader Rob Flannagan will turn in his hand-operated Husk fire plow in favor of a brand new fire fighting Jeep. Flannagan is stationed at the Mt. Enterprise lookout tower. Purchase of the Jeep was made possible largely through the formation of a forest fire fighting cooperative in the vicinity of Mt. Enterprise.
The coop owes its formation to the unceasing efforts of B. W. Jackson, agriculture teacher at Mt. Enterprise, and crewleader Flannagan. It took six months of ground-laying and contact work by Jackson, Flannagan and Fire Supervisor Satterwhite before the prospect of the new unit began to crystallize." (The Rusk Cherokeean)