federal telegraph company purchased property south of hillsboro on september 20, 1920, from the fred rood estate, with completion of the project coming in 1921. federal paid $41,500 for the site that was then three miles from hillsboro. the tower was built to replace a tower the federal government owned in lents that the government removed and sent to siberia during world war i. the dedication of telegraph station kgh came on may 11, 1921, with a crowd of 500 and the hillsboro mayor, a. c. shute, in attendance. built on the station had one large tower at a height of surrounded by eight shorter towers arranged in a circle around the main tower in the center. once complete, it was the tallest structure on the pacific coast, and the only taller structures in the world were the eiffel tower in france and the woolworth building in new york city.