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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 6., The Baptist Church of Medford. (search)
taff,—my little staff of twelve—I passed over this Jordan,— the Jordan of trial and obscurity — in 1841, and now I am become four bands. The days of hand engines. By Mr. Charles Cummings. The steam fire engine did not come to Medford till 1861. In 1847 the town owned four hand engines and one hook and ladder carriage with its appropriate apparatus. These were all located near the centre, as the outskirts had but few buildings to be protected. There was one dwelling house only at Wellington, one south of what is now the Mystic House, and a few at the West End. The house of Engine No. 1 (the Governor Brooks) was on Union street, and is now a dwelling house on Summer street. No. 2 (the Gen. Jackson) was kept in the west end of the brick schoolhouse in the rear of the First Parish Church, till a new home was made for it in what is now Grand Army Hall. No. 3 (the J. Q. Adams) was stored in the brick building on Riverside avenue, which is now owned by the Boston & Maine Railro