Hot Springs Mountain Tower is a 65.8 metre (216-foot) high

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built of lattice steel on Hot Springs Mountain at

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, USA. Construction began in 1982, and the structure was officially opened to the public on June 3, 1983. The tower is the third to be built on the mountain. In the nineteenth century, a 75-foot wooden

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was constructed on the site. This tower was later struck by lightning and burned to the ground. In 1906, the wireless telegraph tower from the 1904

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was relocated to the mountain and renamed the Rix Tower; it stood for there 69 years, finally being torn down in 1975 due to instability. File:Harpers 1878 Hot Springs Observatory.jpg, Observatory on Hot Springs Mountain (Harper's, 1878) File:Picturesque Hot Springs Tower 1924.jpg, Observation tower circa 1924. 165 feet high. 120 mile view and has elevator service. File:Viewing South, town of Hot Springs (38170927942).jpg, View of Hot Springs from the tower File:Hot Springs Mountain Tower observation deck.jpg, Observation deck File:Hot Springs NP Tower.jpg, Hot Springs Mountain Tower in 2009

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