Located in the Bienville National Forest and erected by the CCC, this steel tower rises a hundred feet in nine diminishing A-frame sections. The wooden cab with hipped roof at the tower’s summit is reached by a perimeter steel-frame stair with wooden treads and has a girdling plank-floor catwalk.
Jennifer V.O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller, "MOORE LOOKOUT TOWER", [Forest, Mississippi], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MS-02-EM31.
Buildings of Mississippi, Jennifer V. O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio. With Mary Warren Miller. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2021, 226-226.
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