Chickatawbut Observation Tower | |
Location | Chickatawbut Rd., Quincy, Massachusetts |
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Coordinates | 42°13′30.2″N 71°3′38.5″W / 42.225056°N 71.060694°W |
MPS | Blue Hills and Neponset River Reservations MRA |
NRHP reference No. | 80000652 [1] |
Added to NRHP | September 25, 1980 |
The Chickatawbut Observation Tower is a historic tower on Chickatawbut Road in Quincy, Massachusetts, in the Blue Hill Reservation, a Massachusetts state park.
Unlike Great Blue Hill Observation Tower, a similar tower at the opposite end of the reservation, Chickatawbut tower is not open to the public. The tower was built by the Civilian Conservation Corps in the 1930s. [2] It is named for Chickatawbut, who was a 17th-century sachem of the Massachusett Indian tribe.
The tower was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. [1]