SUNSET HILL
Butte County - Plumas National Forest > California Department of Forestry
November 5, 1927: "Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Leyval of Forbestown were business visitors in Oroville Tuesday. Leyval was employed in the Forest Service as look-out man at Sun-Set Hill." (Mercury-Register)
May 3, 1934: "John T. Gray went to Challenge yesterday to inspect the new lookout station on Sunset Hill. The tower is 50 feet high, with living quarters in the highest part of the building." (Feather River Bulletin)
September 20, 1935: "Robert Owens is now stationed at the Sunset lookout tower since Mrs. Halloran, wife of the lookout, was injured." (Oroville Mercury Register)
August 26, 1943: "Alice M. Marvin, lookout on Sunset Hill, near Challenge, is the only veteran of the 1942 fire season. Mrs. Marvin started on Lexington Hill in 1942, and was transferred to the vital Sunset Hill job this spring. Her home is at Forbestown." (Feather River Bulletin)
April 2, 1948: "Sunset Hill in the Plumas National Forest was the scene of a sunrise Easter service Sunday morning, when 250 people gathered near the Plumas Forest lookout station.
According to Ranger Robert Carlson of Challenge, the congregation of the Community Churches in Challenge, Woodleaf and Forbestown sponsored the services, under the direction of John Dorsten, student minister." (Nevada State Journal)