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Name - Builder - Serial Number - Location - Piston Size - History
C Button 1834 Cohoes, NY
C Button 1854 360 Cumberland, MD 10"
C Button 1857 Clyde, NY
C Button 1877 Clinton, NY
C Button 1878 656 Corvallis, OR 9 1/4"
C Button 1878 657 Calvert, TX 9"
C Button 1859 Claremont, NH 10"
C Button 1888 Columbus, OH Formerly of New Madison, OH.
C Button Clinton, IA
C Button Columbus, MS
10"
C Button Cranston, RI Possibly delivered to the Cranston Water Works.
C Douglas Manchester, CT Garden type engine. Coventry's CT first engine. Now at
CFHS.
C Gleason & Bailey 1885 Columbus, OH
C Gleason & Bailey 1885 Columbus, OH Village engine originally from Quaker City,
OH.
C Hunneman 1807 19 Concord, NH
C Hunneman 1816 41 Charlestown Navy Yard
C Hunneman 1816 43 Cinncinati, OH
See "RELIEF #2"
C Hunneman 1819 61 Concord, NH
C Hunneman 1822 81 Chelmsford, MA To Chelmsford Cotton Mills.
C Hunneman 1823 89 Chelmsford, MA
C Hunneman 1824 104 Canton, MA To Massapog Mill.
C Hunneman 1826 122 Charlestown Navy Yard
C Hunneman 1829 133 Canton, MA
C Hunneman 1833 148 Charlestown Navy Yard Used to pump air to a diving bell.
C Hunneman 1834 151 Santiago de Cuba
C Hunneman 1841 202 Concord, NH 5"
C Hunneman 1844 252 Canton, China
C Hunneman 1845 253 Canton, China
C Hunneman 1845 254 Canton, China
C Hunneman 1845 255 Canton, China
C Hunneman 1845 259 Caibarien, Cuba 5"
See "WIDE AWAKE"
C Hunneman 1845 275 Cardenas, Cuba 4 1/2"
C Hunneman 1845 276 Cardenas,Cuba 4 1/2"
C Jeffers 1865 Chattanooga, TN 10" Sold to U.S. Army base. Double Deck engine
C Jeffers 1865 Chattangooa, TN 10" Sold to U.S. Army base. Side Stoke engine.
C Rumsey 1849
Columbus, OH 4"
Donated to Central Ohio Fire Museum by Quaker City, Ohio; restored in 2005;
has manufacturer's plate 'Rebuilt by Gleason & Bailey 1885"
C Thayer 1797 Charlestown, MA 5" Built for the USS Constitution.
C Thayer 1797 Charlestown, MA 5" Built for the USS Constitution.
C
1789
Carlisle, PA
Destroyed in fire 1845
C Merrick & Agnew 1833 Carlisle, PA Destroyed in fire 1845
C
1845
Carlisle, PA
Sold to Churchtown FC (Monroe Township, PA) Dec 1860; sold
to unknown party in 1885.
C.M. Dunham Independence, IA
Calais #1 Hunneman 1840 193 Calais, ME 5 1/2"
California #4 Hunneman 1851 430 San Francisco, CA 6"
Campo Button 1888 722 Westport, CT 8"
Canadian Wonder Button 1856 Marblehead, MA 10" Delivered to London, Ontario,
Canada, as "PHOENIX #2"; to Andover, MA; to Marlboro,
MA; to Marblehead, MA and
renamed "CANADIAN WONDER".
Capital # 1 Hunneman 1860 659 East Salem, OR Delivered to Portland, OR as
"MULTNOMAH #2"; sold to Salem, OR in 1865 and renamed
"WEBFOOT No. 1",later
renamed "CAPITOL #1", renamed "TIGER #2". At East Salem Fire
Station as"CAPITOL
#1".
Capital Hill #4 Nashville, TN
Capitol#5 Button
1860 Montpelier, VT
9"
delivered april 19, 1860; nicknamed "Little
pet"
Carroll #2 Hunneman 1845 279 Wolfsboro, NH 5 1/2" Delivered to Dover, NH as
"STAFFORD"; sold to Wolfsboro,NH and renamed
"CARROLL", Still at Wolfsboro, NH.
Carthage Fire Co. 1 Button 1842 Carthage, NY Delivered 8/2/1842, in service till
1870s; was there in 1928, unknown after that. Original cost
$300.
Cascade Hunneman 1850 386 Syracuse, NY 4 1/2" Delivered to Foxcroft, ME; sold to
Roth Brothers Steel Corp., Syracuse, NY.
Cascade Merrick 1819 Hallowell, ME Was at Vaughn Estates.
Cascade #1 Button Fall River, MA 10"
Cascade #2 Amsterdam, NY
Cascade #2
Button 1855 402 Lakewood,
RI 9"
Delivered to Brookfield, MA named "CATARACT #2"; to Lakewood, RI in 1896 and
given current name;
destroyed before 1932
Casco #1 Crockett 1850
Portland, ME 6 1/2"
Delivered 2/12/1850 cost $1100; out of service 1860; sold in 1864
Casco #1 Thayer 1835 Portland, ME
Company organized 7/7/1835 Original cost $650;
scapped 1849
Cataract Rumsey 1886
Marine on St. Croix, MN
Cataract Chase & Seymour
1833 Cincinnati, OH operated by
Independent FC#2; this company was not part of the Cincinnati Vol Fire Assoc.
they joined FD in 1851 as Deluge FC #10
Cataract Agnew 1821 New Bedford, MA
Cataract Baldwin 1801 Portland, ME
Originally was at Falmouth, ME ;
arrived in Portland 1820 cost $800; out of service 1845; displayed at
new City
Hall 1858;
destroyed ina fire while stored in basement of City Hall; in 1832 Number
"CATARACT ENG CO 2".
Cataract Button 1852 Amherst, MA. 9 1/2"
Cataract Button
1855 Lakewood, RI
delivered to Bookfield, MA; to Lakewood, RI in 1896; destroyed before 1932
Cataract #1 Button 1853
Amherst, MA 9"
cost $800 new
Cataract Cowing Gardner, MA 8 1/2" Piano style engine. Purchased from
Baldwinville, MA in 1903. Origianlly named "TIGER".
Cataract Hunneman 1802 3 Nantucket, MA
Cataract Hunneman 1841 197 Concord, NH Engine was stationed at West Concord, NH.
Cataract Hunneman 1841 198 Dover, NH. Engine dumped into the Belamy River and
destroyed.
Cataract Rumsey 1887 Cadett, WI
Cataract Thayer 1794 Gloucester, MA
Cataract Thayer 1827 Bath, ME
Cataract Waterman 1850 Springfield, MA 8 3/4"
Cataract Independence IA
Cataract Syracuse, NY
Cataract #1 Button 1848 Cohoes, NY 9" Delivered to Milwaukee, WI
named "ROUGH & READY", cost $675; to Cohoes, NY.
Cataract #1 Button 1853 Amherst, MA 9"
Cataract #1 Button 1857
Cataract, NY
Cataract #1 Hunneman 1808 22 Newton, MA
Cataract #1 Hunneman 1869 703 Berlin Falls, NH 5 1/2" Delivered to Newton, MA;
sold to Hopkinton, MA in 1877 and renamed
"INDEPENDENT #4"; in 1886 sold to
Berlin Falls, NH.
Cataract #1 Thayer 1843 Newton, MA 6 1/2"
Cataract #1 Torboss 1855 Goshen, NY
Cataract #1 Manchester, CT Meriden, CT first engine. Possibly a NYC engine prior
to Meriden. At CFHS.
Cataract #14 Hunneman 1847 319 Carson City, NV 5 5/8" Delivered to Boston, MA;
sold to Pony Express Museum, Arcadia, CA; to Harrah's
Auto Museum, Reno, NV
1955; to Holiday Inn, Reno, NV 1982; sold to the Warren
Engine Co. of Carson
City, NV.
Cataract #2 Button 1852 Glen Falls, NY
Cataract #2 Button Cleveland, OH 9"
Cataract #2 Hunneman 1850 415 S. Royalston, MA 5 1/2" Delivered to Clinton, MA
as "TORRENT #1"; sold to S. Royalston, VT and given
it's current name.
Cataract #2 Hunneman 1853 481 Clinton, MA 5 1/2" Sold to Revere, MA VFA;
scrapped 1942.
Cataract #25 Sickles 1857 New York, NY 8"
Cataract #3 Button Winchendon, MA
Cataract #3 Hunneman 1843 230 Fall River, MA Delivered to Fall River, MA with
400 feet of hose at an original cost $1136; sold to Franklin,
MA in 1865 for
$250; sold in 1912 to C.N. Richardson, a second hand engine dealer,
Providence,
RI.
Cataract #4 Hunneman 1854 528 Dover, NH 5 1/2"
Property of CIGNA of Philadelphia, PA
Cataract #4 Oswego, NY
Cataract #6 Thayer
1831
Nantuvket, MA
Cathan #15 Smith New York, NY
Cechow Rochester, NY
Ceoheoe Laconia, NH
Champion Button Albion, NY. 7 1/2"
Champion Hunneman 1853 473 Norwell, MA 5 1/2" Delivered to Rockland, ME as
"DEFIANCE #4"; sold to West Swanzey, NH and renamed
"CHAMPION". Purchased by
Franklin Reed 1944, to SPNEA. Sold at auction.
Champion #5 Hunneman 1827 87 Springfield, MA Delivered to the mills.
Champion Newark, OH
Charles River #2 Hunneman 1841 207 Brighton, MA 6"
Charleston Jeffers 1857 Charleston, SC 10"
Charlestown Vet Jeffers 1863 Vinalhaven, ME 10"
Delivered to Brooklyn, NY named "PUTNAM #21";
aquired in 1872 by Vinalhaven, ME as
part payment for
granite used in the building of the Brooklyn Bridge and given its current
name;
later sold to
Charlestown, MAVFA for muster competition; Also known as
"TORRENT" at one point.
Chatam #15
Smith
New York, NY
Chatam #27
New York, NY
Chauncy #1 Hunneman 1850 381 Hyde Park, MA 6" Delivered to Westborough, MA; sold
to the Hyde Park, MA VFA in 1892; scrapped
1917.
Chester #1 Hunneman 1842 210 Chester, NH 3"
Chesterfield Factory #1 S.V.
Merrick Chesterfield, NH
Owned by the National Grange Mutual Insurance Co.
Chicago #7 Button
Chicago, IL
Chicago #7 Button
Chicago, IL
Chicago #9 Button Chicago. IL
Chippewa #1 Hunneman 1850 387 Chippewa, Ont. 5" Now at Lundy's Lane Historical
Museum, Niagara Falls, Ontario.
Chocksett Thayer 1842 Sterling, MA Origianlly sold to Westminster, MA.
Christiana Button 683 Lancaster, PA 9" At Penn. Farm Museum.
Cincinnati
1820
operated by Independent FC#3
Citizen Hunneman 1854 514 Eastport, ME 6 1/2"
Citizen Hunneman 1856 562 South Berwick, ME 5 1/2" Delivered to Lewiston, ME as
"LEWISTON, #1"; now at S. Berwick, ME as
"CITIZEN".
Citizen Jeffers 1860 Portsmouth, OH 10"
Citizen #1 Cowing 1859 Standard, CA 10" Delivered to Glens Falls, NY; sold to
Richmond, VA; to Augusta, GA; in 1868; to Union Springs, AL;
in 1897 to
Randolph, MA and renamed "ALABAMA COON"; to Stoughton, MA in 1901, pump
changed
to Button; to Ipswich, MA and renamed "CITIZEN #1" ; to Freedom Land, NY; to
Syracuse, NY; to Standard, CA. NESVFL Champs 1905 and 1910.
Citizen #1 Hunneman 1854 523 Cheraw, SC 5"
Citizen #1 Seller & Pennock
Chillicothe, OH there in 1845, company
disbanded around 1852; sold for scrap
Citizen #2 Hunneman 1853 488 Freeport, ME 6 1/2" Delivered to Richmond, ME;
later sold to Freeport, ME.
Citizen #2 P.Mason 1802 New Bedford, MA Replaced in 1860 by "Hancock #9".
Citizen #2 Waterbury, CT
Citizen #3 Button 1858 Lanchaster, OH 12 1/2" Delivered to Harrisburg, PA
10/6/1858 at a cost of $2000, wgt. 3500lbs; sold to Lancaster, OH
12/12/1866
dismantled. This engine was used for 3 weeks in June-July 1863 to pump water
from the Susquehanna River to Fort Washington across from Harrisburg during the
Gettysburg
campaign.
Citizen #3 Joel Bates 1837 Harrisburg, PA Delivered Aug. 1837 at a cost of
$1100. Taken out of service 1858.
Citizen #8 Cowing 1860 Augusta, GA
Citizens Gift Button Findley, OH 10"
City of Chicopee Button 1854 Chicopee, MA 10"
See "PACIFIC #1"
City of Chelsea Smith Chelsea, MA 8" Original owner was Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.
City of Homes Button 1872 599 Springfield, MA 10" Delivered to Circleville, OH;
to Waterford, NY named "KNICKERBOCKER #2" ;1898 to
Springfield, MA
VFA; Donated to the CVM in 1985.
City of Lawrence Button Lawrence, MA 10"
See "GRANITY CITY"
City of Lowell Hunneman 1859 641 Lowell, MA 8" Delivered to Lynn, MA as
"FOUNTAIN #3" replaced H#315; sold to Brattleboro,VT in 1865;
sold to
Winchendon, MA in 1880; sold to Milford, NH VFA in 1886; sold to Gen. Butler,
VFA of Lowell, MA in 1898 and renamed "CITY OF LOWELL"; Sold to Westerly, RI VFA
in 1920; destroyed in a fire in 1921.
City of Lynn Jeffers 1856 Lynn, MA 9" Delivered to Wonsocket RI as "RESCUE #1";
to Royalston, MA; 1896 to Lynn MA and renamed.
Scrapped in 1912 NESVFL Champ
1898.
City of Somerville Van Ness 1861 Somerville, MA 10" Built for "LIVE OAK #44" of
New York City; in service with Live Oak for only a year; to
New York Navy Yard
at Blackwell's Island; sold to Warwick, NY; to a second hand engine
dealer; to
Greenport, LI, NY and renamed "NEPTUNE #2";to Somerville MA VFA in 1897
and
renamed current name; to Narragansett #2 VFA of Riverside, RI prior to 1919.
City of Waltham Smith Waltham, MA 10"
Claremont #1 Fisher 1820 Claremont, NH At Claremont, NH Fire Station.
Clinch #3 Augusta, GA
Clinton #41 Van Ness 1853 New York, NY 8" Rebuilt by Van Ness 1862.
Cocassett Hunneman 1850 408 Foxboro, MA 4 1/2" At Foxboro Fire Station.
Cochato Button 1862 545 South Braintree, MA 10" Delivered to Munroe, WI as
"MONROE #"1; sold to Braintree in 1902 & renamed
"COCHATO".
Cochecho Hunneman 1845 263 Madrid, NY 5 1/2" Delivered to Rochester, NH; traded
to Hunneman; rebuilt and sold in 1879 to Madrid, NY.
Cochecho Hunneman 1847 321 Rochester, NH 6" Delivered to Beverly, MA as
"PERSEVERANCE #5"; sold to Rochester, NH 10/7/1878 and
given current name.
Cocheco Hunneman 1846 284 Rochester, NH Delivered to Cocheco Mills, Dover,NH;
sold to Rochester,NH; scrapped in 1930.
Cochichewick #2 Hunneman 1850 403 North Andover, MA 5 1/2" Delivered to Andover,
MA; sold to North Andover in 1856.
Cochituate #2 Hunneman 1847 307 Framingham, MA Engine was sold to a town in
Maine.
Col. Dewitt
Jeffers 1857
Oxford, MA 9" delivered
new to Oxford, cost $1037.12 (shipping charges from Jeffers $7.50); in
service
in 1918 replaced
by town's first motorized piece; donated in 1948 to SPNEA;
found on Cape Cod and
returned to Oxford
for $3500
Col. Ellsworth #2 Cowing 1861 Hartford, CT 9" Delivered to Mohawk, NYand active
until 1867, reserve until 1892; sold to Hartford Veteran
Firemen's Assn for musters. Later sold to Hartford, CT. Currently on display at CFHS.
Col. Needham Hunneman 1870 709 Harrisburg, PA 5" Delivered to Groton Junction,
MA; sold to Old Auto Museum, Princeton, MA; 1965 sold
to Mr. Zimmerman of
Harrisburg, PA. Was at East-West Holiday Inn in Harrisburg.;
Auctioned in early
1990s to an unknown buyer.
Purchased at auction by JR
Hunneman.
Cold Sucker Hopkinton, MA
Colleen Brown Button 1845 Center RI Originally named "FLOWER POT".
Collins Button 1854 354 Collinsville, CT 10"
At Collinsville, CT 2022
Collins & Co
Ezekiel Daboll 1826 Collinsville, CT 4 1/2"
Colon #6 Hunneman 1858 618 Valparaiso, Chile 8"
Colt #4 Hartford, CT
Columbia Button 1868 590
Spring Valley, NY 10"
Delivered to Nyack, NY; also served Spring Valley, NY; in 1898 to Winchendon, MA
renamed "COLUMBIA";
to BFM. Swapped with Vince Jarozs of Newmarket, NH for the
1792 Thayer, later
sold to Spring Valley, NY.
Columbia Button North Adams, MA. There in 1915.
Columbia Button Taunton, MA
Columbia Cowing 1857 Columbia, TN
Columbia Thayer 1820 Quincy, MA
Columbia Torboss 1856 Columbia, TN Purchased for $900.
Columbia John Achman
1811 Washington, DC
company organized in 1804, city purchased engine in 1811; destroyed by fire when
the
British burned the town.
Columbia #12 Button 1858 Providence, RI 9"
Columbia #3 Dyer & Richmond 1835 Fairhaven, MA Original cost $1500.
Columbia #5 Button 1870 North Bridgewater, MA 9 1/4" Sold to Carlisle, PA Indian
School.
Columbia #5 Hunneman 1851 443 Savannah, GA 6" Engine sold in 1872.
Columbia #6 Jeffers
Augusta, GA
There in 1858
Columbian Smith
Columbian #5 Button 1855 388 New Bedford, MA 10" Delivered to New Bedford, MA;
to Galesburg, IL in 1873; to Sterling, IL; to Lansing, IA;
returned to New
Bedford 1893, still there.
Columbian #5 Deleno & Durfee 1827 New Bedford, MA
Columbian #6 Dennison 1858 Newark, NJ 6 5/8" Sold in 1863 for $325.
Columbus #35 Cowing New York, NY
Comet Star Hunneman 1850 410 Charleston, SC 6 1/2" Originally named "WARD ENGINE
#5".
Compe#2
Button 1856
Westport, CT
Concord Fire Society 1794
Concord, MA Bucket
filled tub
Concord Vet Hunneman 1859 640 Phoenix, AZ 6" Delivered to Worcester, MA as
"YANKEE BOY #5"; sold to Newport, VT in 1865; 1894
sold to Concord, NH VFA and
renamed current name ; sold to CE Huggins, Concord, NH ;
Sold to Tucson, AZ, still there.
Congress #2 Thayer 1822 Boston, MA. Sold in 1842.
Conqueror Hunneman 1836 172 Cincinnati, OH Delivered to Orono, ME as "TIGER",
sold to HFM in 1924 ; sold in 1959 to St. Bernard, OH;
1975 to Cincinnati, OH
and given current name. At Cincinnati Central Fire Station.
Conqueror Hunneman 1844 256 Cincinnati, OH 6"
Replaced engine "FAR WEST"; operated by Western Hose #3 became Western Hose #14
in 1851; Sold in 1852 to Hunneman for a new
engine. See H#449.
Conqueror Jeffers 1860 Nashville, TN 10"
Conqueror #1 Hunneman 1845 261 Weymouth, MA 6" Delivered to Fitchburg, MA; sold
to Weymouth, MA in 1872; to Goffstown, NH in 1885
renamed "G.W. COLBY"; Returned
to S. Weymouth VFA in 1897; to SPNEA,
auctioned 1989 to an unknown buyer.
Conqueror #2 Hunneman 1842 218 Barre, MA 5 1/2" Engine belongs to the Barre
Historical Society, stored at Allen Foundry, Barre, MA.
Conqueror #2 Hunneman 1845 258 Great Falls, NH Partially destroyed, remains
purchased by Franklin Reed in 1942; to D. Moran,
N. Weymouth, MA1960s ; to D.
Hoffman, Chester, NH 1990s.
Conquistador #1 Hunneman 1859 642 Cuba 4"
Constitution 1819 Cincinnati, OH Reportly built in Troy, NY; operated by Independence Fire Co. #3; scrapped 1920
Constitution
1820 Cincinnati, OH
Originally named "INDEPENDENCE"; by 1834 had been given it's current name;
operated
by
Independence Fire Co. #3
Constitution #16 Boyden 1839 Newark, NJ 6 1/2" Originally named "CONSTITUTION
#7"; was "STAR OF THE WEST #10" 1858-1860;
sold in 1860 to the Atha Factory of
Newark and given current name.
Constitution #2 Hunneman 1851 427 New Boston, NH 6" Delivered to Salem, MA; sold
in 1888 to New Boston, NH, Still there. NESVFL Class
B Champ
1963.
Constitution #4 Hunneman 1846 293 Hingham, MA 5 1/2"
Constitution #7 Dennison 1860 Newark, NJ 8 3/4" Sold in 1864 for $700.
Constitution #7 Jeffers 1854 Brooklyn, NY 9" Originally named "NIAGARA #8".
Constitution #7 Smith 1833 Newark, NJ 6 1/2" Originally "LAFAYETTE #4" in
service until 1844; Given current name in 1858, in service till 1860.
Contental #8 Jeffers 1859 Detriot, MI 11"
Contest #3 Hunneman 1856 564 Painesville, OH 5"
Contest #3 Jeffers
Fairhaven, MA
Continental Cowing 1856 Auburn, NY Piano style, class 2 engine.
Contoocook Button East Jaffery, NH 1916 to S. Ashburnham, MA.
Contoocook #2 Thayer
1848 Jaffrey, NH
Still at Jaffrey, NH
Converse Button 1857 458 Malden, MA 10" Delivered to Unionville, IN; to South
Bend, IN; in 1902 to Malden, MA in 1902; to SPNEA 1974,
loaned
to NEFHM and auctioned for $10,000 in 1989 to
an unknown buyer; to Waterford, NY
Historical Museum in 2005
Conway Smith Conway, MA 8"
Corra-Linn #3 Hunneman 1853 493 Shelburne,
N. S. 7"
originally purchased by St. Johns New
Brunswick, to Shelburne,
Nova Scotia in 1872, in service till the 1920s, then in storage till scrapped in
1943.
Cottleville #1 Rumsy
Cottleville, MO
Rumsey pump mounted on a wagon, aquired 1908
Cotton Mill Hunneman 1846 288 Tepic, Mexico 4"
Count Rumford
Jeffers 1862 Rumford. ME
See "UNION #3"
Cousino #3 Hunneman 1854 501 Valparaiso, Chile 8" Proper name of the engine is
"MATIAS COUSINO #3".
Crescent #10 Cowing 1860 Stayton, OR 6" Delivered to San Francisco, CA in 1880;
to Albany, OR; in 1888 acquired by Stayton, OR and still
there.
Croton Jeffers
Toledo, OH
There in 1858
Croton #8 Thayer
1836 Portland, ME
purchased in 1836 for $500 and named "VOLUNTEER #3", company organized
2/22/1836; Traded
and rebuilt by Hunneman Co. and
repurchased by Portland in 1849 for $400 name changed to
current name.
1852 out of service ans sold
Cushing Howard & Davis 1851 Salisbury, MA 7" Delivered to West Amesbury, MA as
"NIAGARA #2"; later renamed "MERRIMAC"; sold to
Salisbury, MA; given current
name.
Cushing Belmont, MA
Cyrus Wakefield Howard & Davis 1850 S. Reading, MA Sold to somewhere in South
America.
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