FIRST Volunteer Fire Department - Noble, OK
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N 35° 08.431 W 097° 23.738
14S E 646156 N 3889804
This monument stands in front of the Noble Fire Department Station No. 1.
Waymark Code: WM1465X
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 04/26/2021
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The town of Noble, located on Highway 77 south of Norman/Oklahoma City was established during the Land run of 1889, and was named for the U.S. Secretary of the Interior John W. Noble. A post office was established in 1889. Today, the city has a population of about 6900, and is known as the Rose Rock Capital of the World. (Rose rocks (barite rosette) is a rare rock found only in central Oklahoma, Kansas, California and Egypt.
This is a granite monument in front of the fire department listing the names of the volunteer firefighters in the FIRST fire department in town. Behind the monument is a two-wheeled wooden horse-drawn wagon used by that Department. The monument indicates that this wagon dates to 1912.
The monument reads:
First Volunteer Fire Department
1935
Nolan Stufflebean
Harold Maudlin / Bill Smith
Ralph Fessenbeck / Carl Sandle
Murle Delong / Ernest Willis
1912 Fire Equipment
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