Cairo Skywatch Tower

Cairo Skywatch Tower
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Cairo Skywatch Tower, October 2008
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Location	County Road 850N at County Road 100W at Cairo, Tippecanoe Township, Tippecanoe County, Indiana
Coordinates	40°32′26″N 86°55′30″W
Area	0 acres (0 ha)
Built	1952 (1952)
NRHP reference No.	02000202[1]
Added to NRHP	March 21, 2002

Cairo Skywatch Tower, also known as Delta Lima 3 Green Ground Observation Tower, is a historic watchtower located in Tippecanoe Township, Tippecanoe County, Indiana. It was built in 1952, and is a 40-foot tall wooden structure. It once had a glass-enclosed office. It was the first officially commissioned rural skywatch tower by the United States Air Force's Civilian Ground Observation Corps under the Operation Skywatch program.[2]: 5–6  In 1959, after the dissolution of the Civilian Ground Observation Corps, the watchtower was also abandoned.[3]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.[1]

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
2. "Indiana State Historic Architectural and Archaeological Research Database (SHAARD)" (Searchable database). Department of Natural Resources, Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology. Retrieved July 1, 2016. Note: This includes John M. Harris; Angela Bowen; Ben Ross (July 2001). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Cairo Skywatch Tower" (PDF). Retrieved July 1, 2016. and Accompanying photographs
3. Poletika, Nicole (April 7, 2016). ""Wake Up! Sign Up! Look Up!:" Indiana and the Ground Observer Corps". The Indiana History Blog. Retrieved June 5, 2024.