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City of Columbia company history timeline

1814

Many of the early WNY volunteers had personal memories of the great conflagration in August 1814 which destroyed some of their homes and all of their livelihoods.

1827

The Washington Navy Yard Daily Log for 1827 provides the official Yard account of the fire at Alexandria, then part of the District of Columbia Thursday, 18 January 1827 –

1840

The image is of the “Old Lady” a "hand tub” pumper " referred to in the Daily National Intelligencer article dated April 10, 1840 regarding the Firemen’s Procession.

Starting in the 1840’s the number of mature volunteers began to fall and District fire companies depended more and more on younger men and teenage boys to staff the engines.

1841

Navy Yard, Washington, April 5, 1841.

1845

ANACOSTIA HALL, Washington, March 7, 1845

1856

Compare his account of the 1856 WNY Tank Shop fire to that in the Baltimore Sun February 7, 1856 above.

For a long time Firemen, Benjamin Greenup, killed May 6, 1856, was thought to be the first DC Firemen killed in the line of duty.

1880

It reopened in 1880 as the College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts.

1900

Coggon, James, in the early 1900’s wrote a valuable series of articles on Washington D.C. volunteer firemen for Evening Star, now accessible at Congressional Cemetery web page http://www.congressionalcemetery.org/

1962

Sharp, John G. History of the Washington Navy Yard Civilian Workforce 1799-1962.

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