Fire Department Memorial Bell - West Springfield, MA
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Fire Department Memorial Bell at Fire Headquarters, Station #1, in West Springfield.
Waymark Code: WMBZZJ
Location: Massachusetts, United States
Date Posted: 07/09/2011
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This bell was originally bought, in 1900, for the then newly built Fire Headquarters building on West School Street. For many years it went mysteriously missing. It was recovered from a wooded area in town, re-plated by the local Fountain Plating Co. and put on permanent display in front of the present Fire Department Headquarters on 44 Van Deene Avenue.
A plaque underneath the bell reads:
West Spfld Fire Dept
Memorial Bell
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Dedicated Jan 1 2000
To Past And Present
Fire Dept. Members
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Restored By
Fountain Plating Co. Inc.
The bell is inscribed:
West Springfield Mass.
Selectman
Harrison Loomis
M.F. Burke
C.D. Farnsworth
C.C. Haynes, Clerk
Chief Fire Department
J. Frank Whitney
and on the reverse:
Meneely Bell Company
Troy, N. Y.
A.D. 1900
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