Watching Over Their Livelihood and Their Homes
The earliest fire protection in White Mills was likely informal bucket brigades—-neighbors pitching to help when needed. The Dorflinger Guards, a group dating back to the early days in Brooklyn, was a security force whose members probably provided a quick, organized response to fires in the Dorflinger Glass Works. In 1911, the community came together to form the White Mills Fire Department. Members of the community constructed a building to house fire-fighting equipment at the corner of Main and Park Streets. The firehouse also served as a social center for the villagers. When the 1911 building was threatened with demolition as part of a bridge expansion in 1999, descendants of some of the original founders and other preservation-mined people came together to move the building across Main Street to its present location.
(Inscription under the image on the bottom right) Wayne W. Stephens, whose grandfather Joseph was the White Mills Fire Department's first president, led the community effort to save the old firehouse in the way of a modern, two-lane concrete bridge. On Columbus Day, October 11, 1999, the historic structure was raised from its foundation and relocated to a safe location, several hundred feet away. The building crept at a snail's pace in a trip that took nearly the entire day to complete. The project closed Route 6 for the day and required the time and effort of dozens of individuals.
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Placed By | Dorflinger-Suydam Wildlife Sanctuary |
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Date Added | Friday, October 9th, 2015 at 9:01pm PDT -07:00 |
UTM (WGS84 Datum) | 18T E 483062 N 4597166 |
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Decimal Degrees | 41.52596667, -75.20301667 |
Degrees and Decimal Minutes | N 41° 31.558', W 75° 12.181' |
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds | 41° 31' 33.48" N, 75° 12' 10.86" W |
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Area Code(s) | 570 |
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