The Cole Watchtower is located approximately two miles west of the Omro car bridge on State Highway 21. One of Omro's most unusual structures is this seven-story brick-clad steel and reinforced concrete tower, which is attached to an otherwise sedate Italianate-style brick formhouse. The tower was built in 1935 by F. S. Cole, who in 1923 bought the former Charles King farm and King's 1870s house in order to raise silver fox for their fur. By 1935, the 500 foxes on Cole's farm represented a valuable, but very portable investment so Cole and his son Bruce built this tower, which replaced an earlier and smaller wooden one, both to guard their foxes and to supervise them from a distance. The raising of silver fox was a major industry in the 1920s and 1930s, with the best pelts selling for more than $500 each. By the 1930s, more than half of all the fox pelts produced in the U.S. came from Wisconsin. In recognition of the Cole Watchtower's unique place in Wisconsin's agricultural history the tower was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.
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== Summary == {{Information |Description=Looking west at the Cole Watch Tower west of w:Omro, Wisconsin, USA on w:Wisconsin Highways 21. The tower is a registered historic place. |Source=I took it myself |Date=May 4, 2008 |Author=myself |Permissio
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