Union Lookout
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union-lookout-302-7245547
title:
Union Lookout
text:
Union Lookout is a lookout tower located within Trail of Tears State Forest in Union County, Illinois, United States. The Civilian Conservation Corps built the tower circa 1934 as part of a network of fire lookout towers in Shawnee National Forest; the fire towers were one of many CCC conservation projects in the forest, which also included planting trees, constructing bridges and trails, and preventing erosion. The tower was used through the 1960s, by which time airplanes had largely replaced t
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
United States historic place
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_Lookout
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date modified:
2021-06-30T14:18:01Z
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image:
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13
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