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Friendship Veterans Fire Engine Association

Breakfast and Meeting

Parade Day, Monday, February 18, 2007 at 9:00 a.m.

Holiday Inn and Suites Hotel

625 First Street, Alexandria, VA 22314

For additional information, please contact: Bill Kehoe Phone: 703-751-6416 Email: KehoeFD@aol.com

Tickets are $25 each.

To purchase by mail (please mail before February 12, 2008), please send payment payable to the Friendship Veterans Fire Engine Association along with your name, phone number, e-mail address, and mailing address to George Washington Birthday Celebration Committee, 1108 Jefferson Street, Alexandria, VA 22314

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“The Friendship Fire Company was organized in 1774. The company purchased the city's first fire engine the next year from Mr. Gibbs of Philadelphia. The engine was kept in a structure on Royal Street on Market Square until 1838. In that year, the company merged with the Crescent Fire Company and moved to the north side of King Street near Columbus Street. In 1851, the company moved to the present location on South Alfred Street. The engine house at that time was a two-story frame house with a steeple. The old house was damaged by fire in March, and the new one was occupied in November ensuing.”

The above is excerpted from “Forming a More Perfect Community: An Early History of the Friendship Fire Company” by T. Michael Carter, Ph. D. Published as the 2002 Alexandria Quarterly by the Office of Historic Alexandria. To see this article in its entirety, please click on this text.