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- Subject contains "Wakefield (Mass.). Fire dept."
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Wakefield's Volunteer Hose Company, 1894
Date:
1894
Description:
"The Volunteer Hose Company participated in the 250th Anniversary Parade as part of the Third Division. They were joined in the division by the Eighth Regiment Band of Salem Marshal Levi Flanders…[More]
Library: Lucius Beebe Memorial Library
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Fire station, circa 1907
Date:
ca. 1907
Description:
"Wakefield's brick Central Fire Station at the corner of Crescent and Mechanic (now Princess) Streets was built in 1900 after the Hathaway Stable fire destroyed the department's two-story wooden…
Library: Lucius Beebe Memorial Library
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Fire Department and the volunteers
Description:
"Shortly after the incorporation of the town, the town of Reading recorded their first 'bucket brigades' in the 1660s. The first engine was put into service in the early 1800s and was known as the…[More]
Library: Lucius Beebe Memorial Library
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Fire department
Description:
"The first recorded firefighting efforts in Wakefield occurred in the 1660s with the 'bucket brigade' method of fighting fires. Residents were required to have leather buckets to carry water from…
Library: Lucius Beebe Memorial Library
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Engine 2, Greenwood Fire Station, July 3, 1954
Date:
07-03-1954
Description:
"On April 1, 1902, the Town of Wakefield voted to sell the Greenwood Fire Station on Oak Street and convert the adjacent vacant Greenwood School building into a fire station. The school, originally…[More]
Library: Lucius Beebe Memorial Library
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Amoskeag Steamer, circa 1930
Date:
ca. 1930
Description:
"The Fire Department's Amoskeag Steamer works on the Nichols Ice House fire in a photo believed to be taken in 1930. The ice house was located on Main Street, Lakeside, opposite the Walton estate."…[More]
Library: Lucius Beebe Memorial Library
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