In the summer of 2008, the tower was moved to the former Boy Scout Camp Saratoga.

Originally, the Saratoga County Board of Supervisors appropriated $1,000 to be used to build a fire observation station on Cornell Hill.

In 1923, the Conservation Commission built a 60-foot-tall (18 m) Aermotor LS40 steel fire lookout tower on the mountain, which became operational in 1924.

In 1901 Mr. LaCasse was a guide in the party of then Vice President Theodore Roosevelt at the time he was hiking to Mount Marcy when President McKinley was assassinated in Buffalo.

In summer 2008, the Luther Forest Corporation dismantled and moved the tower to the former Boy Scout Camp Saratoga, now a part of the Wilton Wildlife Refuge.