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Description
The Pumgustuk Fire Company of Yarmouth is shown with their hand pumpers and band members. The pumper "Pumgustuck" was purchased in 1856 and retired in 1928. Residents voted at a town meeting in March 1886 to organize a fire engine company. Thirty to forty men comprised the Pumgustuck company.
About This Item
- Title: Pumgustuk Fire Company, Yarmouth, ca. 1900
- Creation Date: circa 1900
- Subject Date: circa 1900
- Town: Yarmouth
- County: Cumberland
- State: ME
- Media: Photographic print
- Dimensions: 16 cm x 25 cm
- Local Code: Photographs--OS--Box 10--Towns ; 1778-67
- Object Type: Image
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Maine Historical Society485 Congress Street, Portland, ME 04101
(207) 774-1822 x219
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LC Subject Headings
- Fire departments--Maine--Yarmouth
- Pumgustuk Fire Company (Yarmouth, Me.)--Employees
- Bands (Music)--Maine--Yarmouth
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