Graves Mountain Lookout Re-Located to the Stevens County Historical Society Museum

LO Site Regions: ORIGIN SITE ~ North Central, RE-LO SITE ~ Northeast

The move of the second Graves Mountain Lookout to the Stevens County Historical Museum (Keller Museum) in Colville is a good example of a Type 1 Re-Location. The Graves Mountain entry in the FFLA website states: “Established in 1934 with a 72′ pole observation tower and accompanying log cabin living quarters, a 30′ treated timber tower with L-4 cab was built in 1955. After having been sold to the Stevens County Historical Society, it was removed in 1985, and relocated next to the Keller Historical Museum in Colville on a small hill overlooking the city. It is listed on the National Historic Lookout Register, and is open for tours during the summer.”

The lookout was moved from its ORIGIN Site atop Graves Mountain to its RE-LO location on the Keller Museum grounds,

The 30′ treated timber L-4 tower was moved from its site atop 5947′ Graves Mountain.

The re-located lookout now stands on this hill top overlooking Colville.

We visited the Re-Located Graves LO at the Keller Museum in Colville on August 5, 2019.

The LO was atop the hill in the Keller Museum grounds.

The cab looked ready for fire season with its shutters raised and the fire-finder in place.

We visited the ORIGIN SITE on Graves Mountain on August 3, 2019.

There was a lot of concrete and steel at the lookout site. No structures remained.

Peggy sttod on the second step of the lookout stairs.

1955, the date of construction was on one of the concrete footing blocks.

Footing blocks for both the 2nd and the 1st LOs could be seen.

The 1st Graves Mtn LO, built in 1934, was replaced in 1955.

The lookout site had views of the forested hills to the southeast.

Dead Trees, killed by the 2015 Graves Mountain Forest Fire, ringed the north edge of the lookout site.

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By hiker99ralph

I am a long time hiker and more recently have added lookout chasing to the hiking hobby. I served as a lookout fireman at the Hoodoo Lookout in the Blue Mountains in the summers of 1957 and 1958. I got away from lookouts after that until retiring when I started chasing lookouts.

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