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==References== {{reflist|refs= <ref name=CHLdeed>[http://acclaim.hcclerk.org/Details/GetDocumentByBookPage/OR/1718/237 CHL Tower Group 2003 deed], Highlands County Property Appraiser, "Consideration: $1,190,000.00" "6th day of November, 2003". </ref> <ref name=crow>Joey Vars, [http://crowsneststpete.com/2015/02/02/floridas-forgotten-tourist-tower/ "Forgotten Tourist Tower"] ''Crow's Nest''. The e-print version of this article, by Joey Vars, is at [https://issuu.com/crowsneststpete/docs/vol49issue19staff "Forgotten Tourist Tower"], Feb 2β8, 2015, Volume 49, Issue 19, p. 4. "At 270 feet high," "A. Wyatt Howell" (sic). </ref> <ref name=Dixie>Kimberly D. Hinder, [https://books.google.com/books?id=VkYQT_1pO4cC&pg=PA234 "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). </ref> <ref name=Memory78030>[https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/78030 Placid Tower under construction] "A. Wynn Howell" on sign. </ref> <ref name=Miami>[http://aeronav.faa.gov/content/aeronav/sectional_files/PDFs/Miami_102_P.pdf Miami Sectional Aeronautical Chart], Scale 1:500,000, February 1, 2018, ''Federal Aviation Administration'' (FAA). PDF 69.3 MB. </ref> <ref name=owners>[http://my.htn.net/lplacid/tower/tower_ground.htm HTN Tower Story] "Two Hundred and Seventy Feet", "Three Hundred and Sixty". </ref> <ref name=SisterCities1>[http://www.lakeplacid.com/news/2011/11/lake-placid-new-york-and-lake-placid-florida-sign-sister-city-proclamation "Lake Placid, New York and Lake Placid, Florida sign Sister City Proclamation"], ''Lake Placid, Adirondacks USA'', November 2011. </ref> <ref name=SisterCities2>Michelle Carter, (May 13, 2011), [https://lompocrecord.com/news/local/sister-cities-program-falls-on-hard-times/article_13f91dce-7d25-11e0-ad52-001cc4c03286.html "Sister Cities program falls on hard times"], ''Lompoc Record'', Lake Placid added to Lompoc Sister Cities program in October 1996. </ref> <ref name=Tourism>[http://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00073793/00097/21x "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". </ref> <ref name=USTopo>[https://prd-tnm.s3.amazonaws.com/StagedProducts/Maps/USTopo/1/22538/7567179.pdf US Topo, Lake Placid, FL, 2015]. [[United States Geological Survey|USGS]]. Save then open to access images button at upper left. </ref>}}
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