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Record 72/5355
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FIRE DEPARTMENT # 20 1 ANCIENT GERRY PUMPS AWAY...by Frances Roche... 3-5 OLD GERRY HANDTUB... 7 PICTURE OF HANDTUB IN '91 WITH SOME LOCALS... 9 FIRE-SCARRED BOSTON CHERISHED LOWLY BUCKET... 11-15 WHEN OLD MILL BURNT DOWN...Messenger June 3, 1904... 15-20 MORE ABOUT ROUNDY'S MILL FIRE...by George B Hiller...Messenger July 29, 1904... 21 AN OLD RYHME...ROUNDY'S MILL...by John W. Chadwick...Messenger May 23, 1904... 23 THE OLD MILL...by James J.H. Gregory...Messenger May 20, 1904... 25 EXPENSES OF ROUNDY MILL FIRE...Messenger August 12, 1904...ROUNDEY'S HILL DEVELOPMENT...Messenger August 21, 1914... 27 THE WINDMILL FIRE...Messenger May 27, 1904...A STILL SATURDAY NIGHT...by James J.H. Gregory...Messenger June 3, 1904... 29 ABOUT THE OLD MILL...by Thomas Doliber...May 31, 1904...REV. WILLIAM BENTLY DIARY...DEC. 27, 1819...deacon John Goodwin & Sons have erected near the harbor the Old Custom House... 31-35 THE OLD WINDMILL..ITS JOURNEY THROUGH THE STREETS AND ITS SPECTACULAR END, FURTHER MEMORIES OF SIXTY YEARS AGO IN MARBLEHEAD...by Stephen P. Hathaway...Messenger May 13, 1904... 37 OLD TIME SCHOOL HOUSE NOW HOME OF THE OKO'S...OKOS ON THE MARCH... 39 THE"OKOMMAKAMEIST" OF MARBLEHEAD... 41 OKO'S HANDTUB AT FIREMAN'S MUSTER...picture taken in Boston in 1917... 43-45 HAND TUB ACTIVITY IN MARBLEHEAD...parade over Abbot Hall hill...note dirt road... 47 FRANKLIN STREET ENGINE HOUSE... 49 OLD TIME FIREMEN AROUND 1910...MEMORY LANE...by Harry Wilkinson... 51 FLAMES INSIDE AND OUT SPARK TALES OF THE OLD FIRE STATION... 53 THE OLD DAYS WERE GOOD, BUT THEY WERE LONG... 55 NOTES FROM OUR PAST - IN - WORDS AND PICTURES... 57 ANTIQUITY...WRITTEN 100 YEARS AGO...shows the organization and conditions under which the firemen of those days performed their duty... 59-63 MARBLEHEAD ABLAZE...by Pat Babcock...b 65-69 REMINISCENCES OF THE OLD FIRE DEPARTMENT...by an Old Worker at Fires...Messenger Jan.22, 1886... 71 BACK IN 1857 THE TOWN WAS TRYING TO CATCH A FIREBUG...Messenger July 22, 1938... 73-77 OLD TIMES IN MARBLEHEAD...1845...by Constancy...Messenger Feb. 26, 1886... 79 RELICS OF 1786...Messenger August 5, 1881... 81 BOSTON NEWS LETTER...BRICK OVEN FIRE 1732...FIRE AT MARBLEHEAD...APRIL 11, 1792... 83 FIRE AT MARBLEHEAD...1792...from the Salem Gazette of April 17, 1792... 85-89 BY LAWS OF THE TORRENT ENGINE COMPANY...APRIL 1807...Messenger Feb. 8, 1929... 91-93 MARBLEHEAD AIDS SALEM IN 1774 FIRE...OLD PAPER TELLS HOW TOWNSPEOPLE WON GRATITUDE OF SALEM.... 95 A VALUABLE RECORD BOOK...contains doing of the department from 1835-1850...from Lewis C. Hamson... 97 TOWN SHOULD RESCUE OLD LIBERTY HOSE...Messenger August 8, 1930... 99-101 LATE GEORGE K. HAMSON SERVED FIFTY SEVEN YEARS IN FIRE DEPARTMENT...from the diary of Mr. Hamson who served the town for fifty-seven years... 103-108 OLD TIME FIRE FIGHTER RECALLS DAYS OF BUCKET BRIGADES, MERRY RACE BETWEEN ENGINES WHILE FLAMES RAGED...Messenger June 8, 1928... 109-111 LETTER FROM MR. BARKIS... Maria Ann Barkis...Messenger Jan. 10, 1872... 113-114 AT QUARANTINE, NEW TORK BAY...LETTER FROM N.B. PALMER'S MATE...APRIL 1, 1872... 115 NEW FIRE HATS...JAN.14, 1881...SOME ADVICE...a piece of doggerel...May 7, 1880... 117-118 LETTER FROM MR. BARKIS...HE DISCOURSES OF DOMESTIC GRIEVANCES...Messenger Feb. 10, 1872... 119-121 PARADE OF MARBLEHEAD FIRE ENGINES IN 1874 AND 1875... 122 MORE REMINISCENCES...ROUNDY'S MILL... 123-127 M.A. PICKETT...MOSES ALLEN PICKETT...Messenger Sept. 28, 1883... 129-131 A GOOD BYE TH THE HAND ENGINES...Messenger April 18, 1890... 133 CREWS AND ASSIGNMENTS OF ENGINES FOR 1890... 135 RECORDS OF FIRE WARDS FOR 1891 AND 1892... 136 BAPTIST CHURCH FIRE... 137 GENERAL GLOVER ENGINE...FIRST CREW: 1859/60... 139 SEVEN FRIENDS ENGINE...CREWS 1832-1835... 141-143 RELIEF ENGINE #1....CREWS 1832-1847... 145 THE MARBLEHEAD...STEAMER #1...APRIL 17, 1871... 147 CREWS OF THE UNION ENGINE...1833-1836... 149 THE ENDEAVOUR HAND ENGINE...April 5, 1836...crew from 1832-1835... 151-155 TORRENT ENGINE...1832-1893... 157-161 EXCERPS FRON THE MEETINGS OF THE FIRE DEPARTMENT... FROM 1893-1899... 163-170 RULES AND REGULATIONS OF THE FIRE DEPARTMENT AS ADOPTED APRIL 29, 1895... 171 MEETINGS OF THE FIRE DEPARTMENT FOR 1904-1932... 183 GERRY ENGINE...LAST CREW OF GERRY...1889... 185 CREWS OF THE GERRY #5...1846-1849... 187 MUGFORD FIRE ENGINE...AUGUST 23, 1858...CREW OF MUGFORD ENGINE IN 1867... 189-193 MARBLEHEAD FIRE DEPARTMENT FOR THE YEAR 1832... 195-203 RECORDS FOR THE FIRE WARDS FOR THE YEAR 1833-1835... 295-208 ESSEX ENGINE...1835... 209-227 MEETINGS OF THE FIRE WARDS FROM 1836-1846... 229-233 AULD LANG SYNE...by B.G.H...Messenger March 31, 1916... 235 ROBERT HOOPER PRESENTED THE TOWN IN MARCH, 1751 WITH THE ENGINE CALLED "FRIEND"...with the necessary pipes and fifteen buckets... 236 VALIENT SERVICE OF HAND TUBS...by John G. Stevens... 227 FIRE ON THE NECK...MEMORY LANE...with Harry Wilkinson... 229 STEAMER IN FIRE PARADE...AUGUST 31, 1912...MEMORY LANE...by harry Wilkinson... 241 PROBABLE SIGHT OF NEW TELEPHONE EXCHANGE...on Pleasant Street between Ocean Ave and Devereux Streets... 243 TOWN DOESN'T OWN ALL OF FIRE STATION LAND...FRANKLIN STREET FIRE STATION... 245 MEMORY LANE...SITE OF CHRISTAMS EVE FIRE...1888. 247 ENCRUSTED FIREFIGHTER PHILIP D. CASH ...AT PLEASANT STREET FIRE... 249 HOPING TO DO WELL...GERRY #5 AT 70TH ANNUAL MUSTER... 251 MEMORY LANE...1914 FIRE FIGHTERS...1942 FIRE FIGHTERS... 253 CHIEF EDWARD D. CREIGHTON RECALLS WORST FIRE...LEAD MILLS BLAZE...FEB. 22, 1968...
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