World War II tower on the Princeton Common

• – Tower used to spot planes during World War II on the Princeton Town Common in Princeton, Massachusetts. It was used as a back-up to the tower on Mount Wachusett during foggy weather. Inside was a telephone to alert Hanscom Air Force Base. The tower was manned mostly by women and children.

• – Princeton (Mass.)--History--Pictorial works
• – Commons--Massachusetts--Princeton
• – Watchtowers
• – World War, 1939-1945--Civil defense--Massachusetts

• – Princeton Collection

• – 1940-1950?

• – C/WMARS http://www.cwmars.org/

• – Is part of the collection of the Princeton Historical Society, http://www.princetonmahistory.org, housed in the Princeton Public Library, http://www.princetonpubliclibrary.org, Goodnow Memorial Building, Princeton, Massachusetts.

• – image/jpg

• – Image is taken from page 43 of Images of America: Princeton and Wachusett Mountain by Joyce Bailey Anderson.

• – English

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