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Name - Builder -
Serial Number - Location - Piston Size -
History
L Button 1851 Ludlow, MA
L Button 1855 Lakewood, RI 9"
See "CASCADE #2"
L Button 1871 595 Lanesboro, PA
L Button 1873 612 Loudenville, OH
L Button 1883 685 Lewistown, MT 9 1/4" Delivered to Fort Benton, MT; to
Lewistown, MT.
L Button Lauren, SC 9 1/4"
L Button
Lafayette, IN
L Gleason & Bailey 1855 LaCenter, WA
L Hunneman 1821 69 Lancaster, MA Delivered to Lancaster Manufacturing Co.
L Hunneman 1824 105 Larrence MA Delivered to Essex Mills.
L Hunneman 1837 174 Lexington, MA
See East Village #1
L R. Mason 1791 Albany, NY Delivered to Lansingburg, PA, was functional as late
as 1905; now at NYSM.
L.
Button
1845
Lafayette, IN
Now at Five
Points Fire Museum, Lafayette, IN(2022)
L. Button Fire Co #1 Button Findley, OH
L.H. Hunneman 1854 533 Manila, Philippines 6"
L.V. Spaulding #5 Jeffers 1849 Haverhill, MA 10"
Delivered to Haverhill, MA named "GEORGE W. LEE",
named changed to current between
1863 and 1871.
La Parisienne Hunneman 1857 587 Valparaiso, Chile 8" Arrived in Valparaiso on
8/7/1857; sold Aug.1882 to the 1st Company of Firefighters
in the city of
Rancagua for 600 pesos. Destroyed in fire at it's station 1/10/1928.
Lackawanna #1
Smith
Rondout, NY
Lady Washington Smith Yonkers, NY
Lady Washington Smith
1851
Morrisiana, NY
Lady Washington #40 Smith 1860 New York, NY 8 1/2"
Lady Washington #40 Torboss 1856 New York, NY 8 1/2" Nickname "The White Ghost".
Lafayette Smith 1849 Weverville, CA
Lafayette Farnum
1847 3 Cincinnati, OH
operated by Marion FC #8
Lafayette
1844
Cincinnati, OH
operated by Marion FC #8
Lafayette #10 Jeffers
1859 Troy, NY 10"
Lafayette #19 Jeffers 1860 Ft. Monroe, WI 8 1/2" 1861 To Ft. Monroe, WI.
Lafayette #19 Jeffers 1860 New York, NY 10"
Lafayette #19 Smith 1849 New York, NY 9 1/2"
Lafayette #3 Thayer 1843 Nashua, NH 6 1/2" Originally sold to Dedham, MA.
Lafayette #4 Agnew 1853 Washington, DC
Lafayette #4 Agnew 1844 Newark, NJ
Lafayette #4 Hunneman 1826 115 Lancaster, NH Delivered to Salem, MA; traded to
Hunneman and rebuilt; sold in 1864 to Lancaster, NH.
Lafayette #4 Smith 1834 Newark, NJ Taken out of service 12/30/1844.
Lafayette #6 Button 1843 Worcester, MA 9 1/2"
Lake Erie #11 Hunneman 1855 541 Cleveland, OH 6 1/2" Delivered to Cleveland, OH;
sold to Deleware, OH in 1863; in 1874 it was sold as
partial payment
towards
steam fire engine.
Laporte #1 Jeffers 1860 South Bend, IN 10" Delivered to Laporte, IN; later to
South Bend, IN.
Lawrence Hunneman 1850 394 Amherst, NH 6" Delivered to Worcester, MA as "TORRENT
#4"; sold to Amherst, NH and renamed current
name.
Lawrence #1 Hunneman 1875 740 Groton, MA 4 1/2" Delivered to Groton, MA;
acquired by SPNEA; sold back to Groton, MA in 1989;
still there.
Lawrence Vet Hunneman 1850 377 Lawrence, MA 6" Delivered to Manchester, NH, as
"MASSABESIC #4"; sold to Groton, MA in 1860
and renamed "PAUGUS"; sold to
Amesbury,MA in 1870 renamed
"MERRIMACK #2"; to Lawrence,MA
VFA in 1886 and
renamed current name; to
Alton Bay, NH in 1886; destroyed in 1940 in building collapse.
Leland Rumsey 1883 Stanford, CA 4" Purchased by Mr. Leland Stanford to protect
his ranch properties.West Coast Class C Champs 1964.
1965 and 1966.
Lexington #1 Howard & Davis 1856 Lexington, MA
Lexington #7 Smith
1855 New York, NY
Liberty Button Lincoln, ME 10"
Liberty Smith Jackson, MI 8 1/2"
Liberty 1819
Cincinnati, OH
operated by Independence FC #3
Liberty Holland
1830 Lexington, MA
2 wheel bucket tub
Liberty Button 1856 431
Vigginia City, NV 10" Delivered
to Marysville, CA to Knickerbocker Eng. Co. #5 named "KNICKERBOCKER #5"
cost
$3500;
to Virginia City, NV in 1870; to Sutro, NV; renamed "OUR OWN" in 1879; to
Dauton, NV in 1894 and
renamed "KNICKERBOCKER #5; to Arcadia, CA in 1922; sold to
Parker Lyon Pony
Express Museum in 1936;
sold with museum in 1955 to W. Harrah, Reno,
NV; sold in 1982 to Comstock Lode
Fire Museum Virginia City,NV and given current name
Liberty #1 Dodd & Ward 1819 Newark, NJ Original cost $1500. Taken out of service
1/1836.
Liberty #1 Jeffers Peabody, MA 10" Delivered to Marshall, MI; 1906 to Chelsea,
MA ; 1921 to Quincy, MA VFA ; 1923 to Peabody VFA.
Liberty #1 Smith 1850 Newark, NJ 8" In service until 9/5/1862.
Liberty #2 Button 1873
610 Amesbury, MA 10"
Delivered to Gold Hill, NV as "LIBERTY" cost $3200; to Lowell, MA in 1910 $450 &
renamed "GENERAL BUTLER", later renamed "LIBERTY"; East Providence, RI in 1915;
to Amesbury, MA
in 1949; location currently unknown, may have been know
as "LOWELL VETS" at one
time.
Liberty #2 Button Jackson, MI 10"
Liberty #3 Jeffers 1858 Jackson, MI 10"
Liberty Fire Co. Cowing 1860 Houston, TX. Cost new $2,000.
Lindham Dubaque, IN
Lion Hunneman 1818 51 Hallowell, ME 3"
Lion Hunneman 1840 194 North Andover, MA 3" Delivered to Andover, MA as "FLANNEL
MILL"; now owned by Mr. Abbott Stevens and is on
display at the North Andover
Historical Society.
Lion P. Lyons? 1792 Springfield, MA In service until 1824 and in reserve until
1844. Double deck engine (possibly built by Pat Lyons of
Philadelphia, PA); traded to Waterman for"Cataract".
Lion #2 Rumsey 1875
Southborough, MA 4 1/2""
Delivered to Dedham, MA; to Westwood, MA when East Dedham became
Westwood in
1897; to FD Newton VFA of Southborough, MA July 10, 2024
Lion Thayer 1844 Brookline, NH 6"
Little Giant Kingsford SA 1875 Townsend, MA
Little Giant Kingsford SA Coventry, RI
Little Giant #1 Hunneman 1873 728 St. Cloud, MN 5 1/2"
Live Oak Button 1833 Amherst, OH 10" Delivered to Philadelphia, OH; to
Cleveland, OH; to Amherst, OH in 1865.
Live Oak Button 1860 544 Dunville, Ontario, Canada 9 1/4" Delivered to
Springfield, IL; to Dunville, Ontario and there in 1901, also served
Buffalo,
NY.
Live Oak Button 1891 737 Rockville Center, NY 8"
Live Oak Smith 1830 New York, NY
Live Oak Van Ness 1861 Somerville, MA 10"
Live Oak #44 Van Ness 1861 New York, NY
Logan Hunneman 1854 510 Logansport, IN 5" Originally named "SUMMIT #1"; renamed
current name in 1880; later sold to Caswell &
Company as partial payment towards
500 feet of hose.
Los Angeles #1 Hunneman 1853 498 Los Angeles, CA 6"
Louisiana #10 Cowing 1860 New Orleans, LA
Lowell #2 Hunneman 1824 96 Chelmsford, MA Delivered to the Boott Cotton Mills,
Chelmsford, MA as "ROCKET #3", later given current
name; destroyed in 1886.
Lowell #9 Hunneman 1848 347 Lowell, MA Delivered to the Lawrence Mfg. Co..
Lowell Vet Smith Lowell, MA 10" Delivered to Nunds. NY; sold to Lowell, MA VFA
before 1908; scrapped or sold in 1911.
Lowell Vets Button 1873 Lowell, MA 10"
See "LIBERTY #2"
Lyons Button Lyons, IA
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