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Excerpt from The Early History of the Town of Dexter The first fire engine was installed in Dexter in 1836, being followed in 1872 by a hook and ladder truck and in 1875 by the the two Button machines. Prior to the introduction of the water works in 1903, fire protect-ion was afforded the business and a portion of the residential section by iron pipes laid in the principal thoroughfares, with hydrants attached, through which water was forced by fire pumps connected with the woolen mill plants, the first fire pump being installed through public subscription and attached to Small's grist mill. Owing to these excellent precautions fires have been of infrequent occurrence and rarely has a fire spread outside of the building in which it originated. The principal fires of late years comprise that of April 23, 1883, when a number of structures were burned on Main street below the Dustin block; the High school building on School street, Dec. 17, 1887 the Eldridge Brothers planing mill, March 29. 1888: the Shepherd Wheeler carriage repository on Church street, March 25, 1895, and the Bank block, Jan. 17, 1896. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.