Neah AWS Site (also called Neah Bay)
This site was established on September 28, 1942. The Aircraft Warning Service built a 14 x 32 cabin and ran a new phone line to the structure. At the end of the war, the AWS document dated May 1, 1944 that discusses disposal of the sites says the cabin should be retained for the State of Washington. Lucky, we have another document nearly a year later from the State of Washington, to the private landowner where the structure was located. This is unusual, we have nearly no AWS documents going tin 1945. Below is the transcript:
WillhiteWeb.com: AWS
March 21, 1945
Letter to Crown Zellerbach Corporation, Neah Bay Logging Corporation.
Dear Mr. Harold Goodrich: As explained to you by Mr. Godfrey of the State of Washington, all AWS stations have been turned over to the Forest Service for holding for future possible reservation or disposition. Because of the isolation of the Neah Bay station located on land owned by your company, it is not considered feasible for this agency to maintain for possible future use, neither does there appear any opportunity to sell. Lease executed by you on November 22, 1942 provided that improvements would revert to your company one year after use ceased. In view of the above please accept this letter as notice that this station is being abandoned by the Forest Service and you may make any use of the buildings you desire or salvage any valuable parts thereof. N.J. Andrews, Regional Forester.
Thoughts:
From this letter, we can only guess what was done with the structure. The most likely case is that it was left in place to rot. I also think that the structure could have been moved, especially to a nearby location like the Neah Bay Lookout site 2 miles to the Southeast. The framed wood debris located at Neah Bay hint of this being the type of structure built by AWS, but this is just my theory.
More to come when found.
Phone line to Sekiu, then a public line to Clallam Bay.
On the Neah Observation Post we are running a line northerly from the center of Section 33, Township 33 North, Range 14 West to the Neah Bay road. From that point we run east six miles approximately, on the poles of the Coast Guard to the Sekiu River at the Xtate Guard observation post and we connect with a line to the Clallam Bay switch board. Your Mr. Gentry is cooperation in the construction of this line in excellent fashion and we believe the post will be in operation shortly.
Dear Mr. Harold Goodrich: As explained to you by Mr. Godfrey of the State of Washington, all AWS stations have been turned over to the Forest Service for holding for future possible reservation or disposition. Because of the isolation of the Neah Bay station located on land owned by your company, it is not considered feasible for this agency to maintain for possible future use, neither does there appear any opportunity to sell. Lease executed by you on November 22, 1942 provided that improvements would revert to your company one year after use ceased. In view of the above please accept this letter as notice that this station is being abandoned by the Forest Service and you may make any use of the buildings you desire or salvage any valuable parts thereof. N.J. Andrews, Regional Forester.
March 21, 1945
Letter to Crown Zellerbach Corporation, Neah Bay Logging Corporation.
Get paid more at Neah
May 1, 1944 document saying to retain for the State of Washington
Neah also called Forks 3
Request for mailing addresses
Maps show that Neah AWS site was inside Township 33 North, Range 14 West
AWS documents mostly put the location in Section 33, in the NW1/4 of the SW 1/4. One document puts the location in section 34, in the SE1/4 of the SE1/4. Both locations have a highpoint.
AWS lists with Neah