A Death Valley National Park visitor has claimed responsibility for damaging a 113-year-old historic tower, park officials ...

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While Lillie Hitchcock Coit commissioned the tower as a monument to volunteer firefighters, the concrete pillar's nozzle-like appearance is coincidental. The tower was completed in 1933 ...