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  2. Fire Museum of Memphis - Wikipedia

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    The Fire Museum of Memphis is located in the Fire Engine House No. 1, which was built in 1910. Historic exhibits in the museum date back to the late 1800s and early 1900s. [2] Several historic fire engines that were used by the Memphis Fire Department are on display at the museum. [3] 1910 Crump Steamer; 1912 American LaFrance; 1929 American ...

  3. Memphis Fire Services - Wikipedia

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    The history and artifacts of the department are displayed at the Fire Museum of Memphis. A replacement to Station 5 started construction in the summer 2020 and was opened in fall 2021. The new station is located at 400 Adams, and houses the firefighting equipment from the old station.

  4. History of Memphis, Tennessee - Wikipedia

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    From about 10,000 BCE, Paleo-Indians and later Archaic-Indians lived as communities of hunter-gatherers in the area that covers the modern-day southern United States. [4] [5] Approximately 800 CE to 1600 CE, the Mississippi River Delta was populated by tribes of the Mississippian culture, a mound-building Native American people who had developed in the late Woodland Indian period.

  5. How these 9 Memphis historic buildings are coming back to life

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    Memphis-based Self + Tucker Architects and Allword Project Management are helping with design and site planning, respectively. Clayborn Temple dates back to 1891 and was a key site during the 1968 ...

  6. History of firefighting - Wikipedia

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    On April 1, 1853, the Cincinnati Fire Department became the first full-time paid career fire department in the United States, and the first in the world to use steam fire engines. [9] The first horse-drawn steam engine for fighting fires was invented in England in 1829, but it was not accepted in structural firefighting until 1860. It continued ...

  7. Memphis Fire Department - Wikipedia

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    This page was last edited on 10 June 2015, at 19:06 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may ...

  8. Look Back: 'Old Neptune' was used to fight fires in early ...

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    Another story about the history of the Wilkes-Barre Fire Department, published in the Wilkes-Barre Semi-Weekly Record on Oct. 5, 1897, reported borough town council in August 1817, agreed to ...

  9. Joe Frazer Smith - Wikipedia

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    With Herbert Burnham, he designed the mansion of the president of Rhodes College in Memphis in 1926. [2] He designed Castle Crest in Jackson, Mississippi in 1929–1930, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. [3] In 1938, he designed Dixie Homes, public housing for African Americans in Memphis. [4]