Town: Orange
County: Grafton
Mountain or Hill: Cardigan Mountain
Height above sea level: 3121 FT
Tower Structure Height: 15 FT
Latitude: 43-39-07
Longitude: 71-55-04
First date of operation: 1924
Operating Agency: NH Forestry Service
Type: Steel Tower

Cardigan Tower in 1923
(Photo courtesy Jack Kelley)

• 1924-present
• Steel tower 15' high was fabricated in the NH Forestry Commission workshop, the first tower in the state not purchased from a tower manufacturer. It is possible that there was an earlier wooden tower, built around 1903, on a site used by the USGS survey team in the 1880s.