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Name - Builder - Serial Number - Location - Piston Size - History
W Button 1849 Waterbury, CT
W
Rumsey 1878
Webster, NY
delivered to Williamson, NY; to Webster in 1908
W Button 1859 500 Wilton Junction, IA 10" Delivered to St. Clair, MI.
W Button 1870 594 Westfield, WI 9" Delivered to Berlin WI.
W Button West Hartford, CT
W Button 1853 326 Waterford, NY
W Cowing 1860 Wellsville, NY
W Hunneman 1818 54 Washington, DC
W Hunneman 1818 56 West Point, NY Delivered to the Military Academy there.
W Hunneman 1820 64 Wilmington, NC
W Hunneman 1821 71 Walpole, MA Delivered to Wrentham MA mills; now at Walpole MA
1980.
W Hunneman 1821 73 Dighton, MA Delivered to Wellington, MA Cotton Mills;
Wellington, MA became Dighton, MA.
W Hunneman 1823 86 Wareham, MA
W Hunneman 1824 101 Ware, MA Delivered to the cotton mill.
W Hunneman 1825 106 Wareham, MA
W Hunneman 1825 110 Warren RI
W 1803 Wiscassett, ME There 1999.
W. H. Cook White Hall, NY
W.F. Bascom White Hall, NY
Wacantuck #1 Hunneman 1854 503 Uxbridge, MA 5"
Waltham #1 Hunneman 1816 45 Waltham, MA Delivered to Waltham Cotton mill.
Waltham #2 Hunneman 1829 130 Port Richmond, NY Delivered to a Waltham, MA cotton
mill; sold to Port Richmond, Staten Island, NY in 1904.
Wamesit #1 Hubbard
1833 Tewksbury, MA Rotary gear engine.
original cost $150; went to Lowell, MA when Lowell
annexed the Belvidere section of
Tewksbury,
name changed to "BELVIDERE #10"; removed from service; returned to Tewksbury in
1934
and given it's original name.
Wamesit #3 Hunneman 1845 269
Meredith, NH Engine at Meredith, NH
Wantastiquet #1 Hunneman 1862 664 Jamaica, VT 4" At the Jamaica, VT Fire
Station.
Ward Engine #1 Hunneman 1846 303 Charlestown, SC 6"
Ward Engine #10 Hunneman 1853 469 Charlestown, SC 7"
Ward Engine #11 Hunneman 1853 496 Charlestown, SC 6 1/2"
Ward Engine #3 Hunneman 1848 342 Charlestown, SC 6 1/2" Originally named
"AETNA".
Ward Engine #4 Hunneman 1846 304 Charlestown, SC 6"
Warner #1 Hunneman 1824 95 Warner, NH. 4 1/2" Delivered to the cotton mills.
Warren Button 1860 527 Pepperell, MA 10" Delivered to Roxbury, MA; sold to
Boston Woven Hose Co. in 1864; to Ipswich in 1865; to Pepperell, MA in 1896;
still there. NESVFL Class A Champ 1974.
Warren #12 Boston, MA
Warren #4 Hunneman 1835 164 Long Beach, CA Delivered to Charlestown, MA; sold to
Marysville, CA in 1850; to Carson City, NV in 1863;
sold to T.C. Wholbuck, San
Jose, CA; later to HFM; sold to Long Beach, CA in 1947.
Warren #4 Hunneman 1861 663
Plaistow, NH 7" See "GENERAL WARREN"
Washington
Peeksville, NY
Washington Button Calais, ME 10"
Washington Howard & Davis 1850 Haverhill, MA 6 1/2"
Washington Hunneman 1829 131 Georgetown, MA Delivered to Medford, MA as "JACKSON
No.3"; sold to Georgetown, MA given current name.
Washington Hunneman 1851 423 Augusta, GA 6"
Washington Jeffers
Schagticoke, NY
Washington Jeffers 1858 Xenia, OH 10"
Washington Jeffers 1860 Greenville, SC 10" Delivered to Charleston, SC; to
Greenville in 1866.
Washington Jeffers Peabody, MA 9"
See "WASHINGTON #5"
Washington Sickles New Haven, CT
Washington Wright Chicago, IL 6"
Washington Young 1840
Washington
Hanover, PA 5 3/4"
originally purchase by Baltimore FD and named "GAZELLE"; on 7/4/1848 BFD
attended a parade for the
laying
of the cornerstone of the Washington Monument and the engine was renamed
"WASHINGTON";
purchased by
Hanover FC #1 used in 1856 for $450; in a museum in Hanover.
Washington, #1 Smith
Williamsburg, NY
Washington #1 Button 1855
Dubuque, IA Delivered to Dubuque, IA cost $1000; sold to
Marshalltown, IA in 1872; to Blairtown IA; to State Center in 1866;
back to Dubuque in 1908
Washington #1 Button 1856 409 Mechanicsburg, PA 9 1/4"
Washington #1 Button 1857 Milford, MA 10"
Washington #1 Button 1874 625 North Kingstown, RI Delivered to Milford, MA; sold
to North Kingston, RI in 1885. NESVFL League Champ 1921,
Class A Champs 1963 and
1965.
Washington #1 Button 1858 Middlebury, VT 9"
Washington #1 Button
1874 Medford, MA 10"
Washington #1 Button Pittsfield, MA Delivered to Schaghticoke, NY; to
Pittsfield, MA in 1915.
Washington #1 Hunneman 1836 170 Provincetown, MA 5" At the Pilgrim Monument
Museum, Provincetown, MA.
Washington #1 Hunneman 1849 366 Milford, MA 5" Delivered to Milford, MA; sold to
Mendon, MA, later sold back to Milford, MA.
Washington #1 Hunneman 1854 502 Dubuque, IA 6"
Washington #1 Jeffers 1852 Brooklyn, NY
Washington #1 Jeffers Norwood, MA 9"
Washington #1 Thayer 1839 Weymouth, MA
Washington #1 Rumsey
Washington, NC
There in 1891
Washington #1 Gleason & Bailey
Slinger, WI
In museum in Slinger
Washington #1 Farnum 1847
2 Cincinnati, OH
Washington #1 P.Lyons 1813
Cincinnati, OH
Was operated by Washington FC#1; now at Cincinnati Fire Museum
Washington #16 Hunneman 1844 241 Greenfield, NH Delivered to Worcester, MA; sold
to St. Albans. VT; sold to Greenfield, NH in 1905; scrapped 1928.
Washington #2 Button 1878 659 West Quincy, MA 9 1/4" Delivered to Brookville,
MA; to W.Quincy, MA 1924; Scrapped 1942.
Washington #2 Button Rockford, IL There in 1860.
Washington #2 Cowing 1876 Georgetown, MA 9" Original owner unknown, original
name "TIGER"; bought by Newburyport, MA VFA in 1894-5; sold to
Georgetown, MA in
July 1897 and given current name; partially destroyed in a fire in 1915; remains
sold to
a Newburyport junk dealer.
Washington #2 Hunneman 1824 94 Newton, MA Purchased by the Iron Works known as
Newton Factories.
Washington #2 Hunneman 1843 225 Chelsea, MA 5 1/2'
Washington #2 Hunneman 1856 577 Delaware, OH 5" Sold in order to purchase steam
engine in 1874.
Washington #2 Hunneman 1857 602 Kennebunk, ME Delivered to Rutland, VT; to
Kennebunk, ME; destroyed in 1927.
Washington #2 Thayer Gardner, MA 7 1/2"
Washington #2 Rumsey
Washington, NC
There before 1891
Washington #20 Cowing 1860 New Orleans, LA
Washington #3 Howard & Davis 1853 Woburn, MA Traded in 1877 for hose.
Washington #3 Hunneman 1850 390 Epping, NH 6 1/2" Delivered to Medford, MA; sold
to Epping, NH in 1874.
Washington #3 Smith 1797 Newark, NJ Bucket tub; originally named "LIBERTY #1";
converted to a suction engine 1819 and given current name; sold to
Atha Company of Newark in 1851
Washington #3 Thayer 1802 Boston, MA 5"
Washington #3 Thayer 1836 Boston, MA 6 5/8" Rebuilt by Hunneman in 1845, sold in
1849.
Washington #3 Jeffers 1852 St. Louis, MO 10" Double deck engine.
Washington #4 Smith
Newburg, NY
Washington #4 Button 1858 Saratoga Springs, NY 10" Delivered to Lansingburg, NY;
to Saratoga Springs, NY.
Washington #5 Hunneman 1826 121 Georgetown, MA Delivered to Charlestown, MA;
traded to Hunneman and rebuilt; sold to Georgetown, MA in March 1860.
Washington #5 Smith 1830 Hartford, CT Gooseneck engine.
Washington #5 Jeffers
1859 Boston, MA 9"
Delivered to Charlestown, MA; as WASHINGTON #5.; to Belfast, ME in 1866 renamed
"HYDRANT";
to Peabody, MA VFA in 1892, renamed "UNION" ; sold to Bristol, Rl VFA in 1906
and named
"KING PHILIP"; to Saylesville, RI in 1927.; to NEFHM; to Boston Fire Museum
under current name, still there
Washington #6 Hunneman 1855 560 Memphis, TN 8"
Washington #8 Smith
1859
Cedarburg, WI
Delivered new to Milwaukee, WI; sold to Cedarburg in 1862
Washington #9 Hunneman 1848 344 Savannah, GA Sold in 1868 as partial payment for
a steam engine.
Washington #9
Cambridge, MA
Privately owned by the Boston & Lowell Railroad.; disbanded in 1864.
Washington Volunteer Button 1855 Chicago, IL At Science and Industry Museum,
Chicago, IL.
Washington Volunteers Button 1855 381 LaCenter, WA 9 1/2" Delivered to New York,
NY; at Treemansburg, NY from 1912 to Aug. 1981; sold at auction at
Elliot, ME to
Thomas Wainwright of Bethlehem, PA
for $6000; sold to D. Blackburn of
LaCenter, WA.
in 1990, still there
Washingtonian #2 Hunneman 1847 335 Fitchburg, MA 6" Sold in 1860.
Wasloe Engine Button 1863 Bellevue, IN 9 1/2" Delivered to Virginia City, NV;
sold to Reno, NV in 1875 for $880.; sold to Bellevue, IN.
Watatic Hunneman 1842 209 Ashby, MA 5 1/2" Delivered to Newton, MA as "NONANTUM
#5"; sold to Greenville, NH lumber mill in 1873, sold Ashby,
MA
in 1899 and
given current name.
Watchemoket Jeffers 1863 East Providence, RI 10"
See "UNION #3"
Water Witch Hunneman
1824 93
Ashby, MA
Water Witch Hunneman
1851 419 Northfield, VT 6"
Delivered to Vermont Central Railroad.
Water Witch American Hydraulic 1800 Waldoboro, ME Rotary type engine.
Water Witch Button 1858 489 Framingdale, NY
9"
Purchased 2nd hand from Islip, NY in 1889
Water Witch Button Waterloo, IA 9 1/4"
Water Witch Button Quincy, IL
Water Witch Button Beliot, WI
Water Witch Button Janesville, WI
Water Witch Howard & Davis 1859 Bowdoinham, ME 6 1/2" Delivered to Dedham, MA;
sold in 1886 Bowdoinham, ME; to Auburn, ME;
returned to Bowdoinham in 1965.
Water Witch Smith Providence, RI
Water Witch 1798 Waldoboro, ME Bucket tub.
Water Witch Agnew
1830 Cincinnati, OH
operated by Independent FC#1, disbanded 1853; never was part of the Cincinnati
FD
Water Witch Button 1885
713 Bennington, VT
at Bennington, Museum
Water Witch #1 Hunneman 1857 606 Jacksonville, IL 6"
Water Witch #11 Bisbee & Edwards 1840 Lowell, MA 6" Delivered to Lowell Machine
Shops, Lowell, MA; disposed of in 1851.
Water Witch #2 Hunneman 1825 107 Reading, MA
Water Witch #2 Hunneman 1850 399 Niagara Falls, NY 4 1/2" At Niagara Falls
Historical Society.
Water Witch #2 Hunneman 1860 657 New Ipswich, NH 4" Sold to Franklin Reed in
1944; destroyed in a fire 1972; Remains purchased by V. Jarosz 1999.
Water Witch #2 Roberts 1854 Lee, MA 10 1/4 " Delivered to Lee, MA; sold to F.D.
Newton VFA of Southborough, MA in 1960;
sold back to Lee, MA 8/25/2001.
Water Witch #2 S.Thayer
1824 Lexington, MA 5"
Delivered new to Quincy, MA named "ADAMS#2"; sold to Lexington in 1830 and name
changed to current.
Water Witch #4 Hunneman 1832 137 Dedham, MA
Water Witch #6 Smith 1834 Providence, RI 5" Sold in 1866. Possibly a gooseneck
engine.
Water Witch #6 Thayer 1814 Providence, RI 5" Originally named "EAGLE"; sold in
1854.
Water Witch Independent #1 1830
Cincinnati, OH
Waterbury #2
Van Ness 1849
See "PROTECTOR"
Webster #13 Hunneman 1854 519 Boston, MA 5 11/16"
Weccacoe Agnew Baltimore, MD Purchased by the U.S. Army.
Western Hunneman 1853 482 Shelbourne, VT 6" Delivered to Worcester, MA as "RAPID
#2"; sold to Brattleboro, VT and given current name;
now at Shelbourne, VT.
Westminster #1 Hunneman 1855 557 Newton, MA 5 1/2" Delivered to Westminster, MA;
was at Edaville Fire Museum, S. Carver, MA; now in Newton, MA.
Westminster #1 Button
Westminster, MA
Wetumka Gleason & Bailey 1894 Warwick, RI 10" Delivered to Riverpoint Fire Co.,
Warwick, RI as "RIVERPOINT"; to Oakland Beach, RI VFA;
scrapped 1940, sold to
junk dealer for $40; last at Norwood, RI.
White Angel Button 1894 746 Amesbury, MA 10" Delivered to Salem, MA, to Everett
in 1941 renamed "CAPT HUNT"; to Amesbury, MA in 1952; still there.
Original cost
$1750. Built expressly for muster competition, never saw fire service.
White Angel Button
1855 378 Salem MA
See "PROTECTION #1"
White Ghost Torboss 1856 New York, NY 8 1/2"
Whitehall #3 Button
Whitehall, NY
Wickwackett Cowing Greenwich, NY Delivered to Rutland, VT as "RUTLAND #1"; sold
to Greenwich, NY in 1912 and given current name.
Wide Awake Wright Chicago, IL
Wide Awake Hunneman 1845 259 Caibarien, Cuba 5" Delivered to Milford, MA; traded to
Hunneman & Co; delivered 4/18/1868 to the ship Mary E. Dana
bound for Caibarien,
Cuba.
Willet's Point #6 Agnew New York, NY
William Hill #2 Hunneman 1859 637 North Berwick, ME Delivered to Biddeford, ME
as "PIONEER #2"; sold to N. Berwick, ME and given current name.
NESVFL 1948
Class B Champ.
Williamsburg #1 Holland 1810 Haydenville, MA 4"
Willing and Able Button
1881 670 Tombstone, AZ
See Willing and Able
Wilmington #1 Hunneman 1867 696 Wilmington, SC 6"
Wilton Wilton Junction, IA
Windham #1 Rumsey 1845 Windham Center, CT 4"
Winnacunnet #1 Button 1863 577 Hampton Beach, NH
Delivered to Michigan City, IN as "GERMANIA"; to Jackson MI; 1902
to West Manchester, NH in
1902; 1913 to Chelsea, MA; renamed "WINNISIMMETT"; 1948 to
Bath, ME renamed
"SAGADAHOC
#2"; 1950 to Georgetown, MA; 1963 to Hampton Beach and
named changed to
current name; loaned in 1968 Seabrook, NH for musters; returned
to Hampton Beach, NH in 1969;
still there.
NESVFL Champs 1917
Winnisimet Jeffers 1859 Chelsea, MA 11" Delivered to Mobile, AL as "TORRENT #5;
to Macon, GA; to Colbert, GA and renamed "DEFIANCE";
to Winnisimet VFA Chelsea,
MA in 1898; scrapped 1912.
Winona #1 Hunneman 1857 599 Winona, MN 6"
Winyah Hunneman 1850 393 Georgetown, SC 4 1/2"
Witch #4 Hunneman 1857 589 Davenport, IA 7" Destroyed by fire.
Wolverine Detroit, MI
Woodbridge Jeffers
1858 Detroit, MI
See "STAR"
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