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Originally Posted by dc2
Maybe not 1189 AD history but your getting there  What about the wild west? its still history |
As long as the West applies, how about this hand-drawn fire engine from 1859? I am told that it still works, though it needs a bit of maintenance.
Text on plaque reads:
FIRE HOUSE No. 1
1854
In this building erected in October 1854 was Shaw ans Brown's Grocery until superceded by Wheeler Bros. in april 1857. Partially demolished by a gunpowder explosion in the Fire of 1857, it was rebuilt in March 1861. The town of Columbia purchased it for the permanent home of the Tuolomne County Engine Co. No. 1 and their hand pumper "Papeete" brought from San Francisco two years before.