CAIRO SKYWATCH TOWER

U.S. Air Force commissioned observation tower August 16, 1952
for Operation Skywatch, part of Civilian Ground 
Observation Corps during Korean War.  Constructed by community volunteers.  Approximately ninety people alternated shifts to maintain twenty-four-hour watch for enemy planes because there was no national radar system.

Erected 1995 Indiana Historical Society
Located on County Rd. 850 N. at Cairo
in Tippecanoe Township.