Col. Anthony Kuser was interested in wild life and natural history. He thus acquired a large estate on Kittatiny Mountain, including High Point, 1805 feet high, highest point in New Jersey, and Lake Marcia, the state's highest lake, and maintained it as a wild life sanctuary. In 1922 he turned it all over to the state, which then placed it under  the care of the High Point State Park Commission, with Wayne Dumont as chairman. It was extensively developed with state appropriations.

 Col. Kuser gave funds for the erection of a perpetually lighted war memorial tower, to the soldiers and sailors of New Jersey who gave their lives in the various wars of the Nation, on the summit of High Point. 

 

Source of data: Scenic and historic America, Volumes 1-2 

                      by American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society