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Description
The Portland Fire Department's Steam Engine 3, built in Manchester, N.H., in 1862, is an Amoskeag 2nd size steam fire engine with serial number 54. It went into service in September 1862.
The engine weighed 6,800 pounds and cost $3,618.
About This Item
- Title: Cumberland No. 3 Steam Fire Engine, 1862
- Creation Date: circa 1862
- Subject Date: circa 1862
- Location: Portland, Cumberland County, ME
- Media: Photographic print
- Dimensions: 20 cm x 25 cm
- Local Code: Coll. 242, Box 29
- Collection: Portland Company records
- Object Type: Image
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