Kimberly D. Hinder, "Florida's Earliest Tourist Towers: Placid Tower", Looking beyond the highway: Dixie roads and culture, ed. Claudette Stager and Martha Carver, University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville, 2006. Cites Sebring News articles from early 1961. "either an enclosed observation deck at 192 feet or an open observation deck at 200 feet ... the crow's nest, which was 225 feet above ground. Lauded as the world's tallest concrete-block structure when it opened, the tower topped off at 240 feet". "A. Wynne Howell" (sic).
Joey Vars, "Forgotten Tourist Tower"Crow's Nest. The e-print version of this article, by Joey Vars, is at "Forgotten Tourist Tower", Feb 2–8, 2015, Volume 49, Issue 19, p.
4. "At 270 feet high," "A. Wyatt Howell" (sic).
CHL Tower Group 2003 deed, Highlands County Property Appraiser, "Consideration: $1,190,000.00" "6th day of November, 2003".
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HTN Tower Story "Two Hundred and Seventy Feet", "Three Hundred and Sixty".
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Joey Vars, "Forgotten Tourist Tower"Crow's Nest. The e-print version of this article, by Joey Vars, is at "Forgotten Tourist Tower", Feb 2–8, 2015, Volume 49, Issue 19, p.
4. "At 270 feet high," "A. Wyatt Howell" (sic).
"Architectural Helps for Tourism", Florida Architect, 12/7, July 1962. "Built of reinforced concrete faced with ceramic tile and capped by roof tracery of gold anodized aluminum".
