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[a-connecticut-yankee]

Visit These 8 Towers For The Best Panoramic Views In Connecticut

Feel like you are at the top of the world with the breathtaking views from these towers.

Visit these Connecticut towers for sweeping panoramic views of not only our own land but as far as New York and New Hampshire. Which is your favorite?

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Cunningham Tower - one of my favorite places on earth. We stopped by today after applying for our marriage license (this is where our ceremony will be next month.)

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Mohawk Mountain Summer 2014

Cunningham Tower

Located in Cornwall Connecticut within the Mohawk Mountain State Forest, Cunningham tower is the failed project of Seymour Cunningham, who had acquired the surrounding land in 1913. Over 100 years later the tower still stands. Unfinished and covered in graffiti, the tower remains an amazing abandoned attraction to visit in the northwestern Connecticut area.

Photos: 35 mm film by oldxpride

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Cunningham Tower, Cornwall, CT

Located atop Mohawk Mountain is Cunningham Tower. While the current stone tower was built in 1913, a wooden pole tower was previously built on the location in 1882 to serve as an observation tower. However, just ten years later the wooden tower became unsafe to climb and soon after collapsed.

In 1912 Seymour Cunningham began purchasing the land and eventually began to build the stone tower that still stands today. Thirty feet in circumference and thirty feet high it was referred to as "Aerie" and the area surrounding the tower was fenced off for sheep. The sheep farm eventually failed and the land was sold and eventually donated in 1921.

Cunningham Tower is located along the Mohawk/Mattatuck Trail in Mohawk Mountain State Park and State Forest. The second level of the tower is completely gone, and tower has also been abused by vandals and graffiti artists. There are currently no plans for Cunningham Tower.