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[–] Godwillwin 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

I totally agree that it's not a watchtower for the playground. You can't steal a kid from a park from a watchtower. Yes, it's likely to watch for something else.

In Cajun country, the plantation homes have watching platforms on the roof called widows' peaks because back in the day the wives would climb up to the peak to look for their husbands' return from battle or hunt or sea etc. often times their husbands would not return from their treacherous journeys, so they called the watch platform "widows peak"

Maybe the watchtower looks over a harbor to spot arrival of barge shipments of children?? Far fetched, I know. I'm brainstorming