{"id":4160,"date":"2019-01-22T07:17:19","date_gmt":"2019-01-22T12:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/?p=4160"},"modified":"2026-04-15T13:13:34","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T17:13:34","slug":"north-carolina-state-firemens-conference-proceedings-1896","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/north-carolina-state-firemens-conference-proceedings-1896\/","title":{"rendered":"North Carolina State Firemen&#8217;s Conference Proceedings, 1896"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The North Carolina fire service is quite old, and goes all the way back to the late 1700s. Artifacts from earlier eras are harder to come by, and anything pre-1900 is a bonafide find. Thus it\u2019s a hysterical historical pleasure to share some early conference proceedings from the North Carolina State Firemen&#8217;s Association, from August 1896.<\/p>\n<p>The 120-page document (see <a href=\"https:\/\/legeros.com\/history\/fa\/proceedings\/ncsfa\/\" class=\"broken_link\">web directory<\/a>, click <strong>1896<\/strong>, beware large file size)\u00a0 is brimming with goodies, including stats on the member fire departments, tou<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">rnament scores, vintage advertisements, and even a picture of Greensboro\u2019s Eagle Hose Company\u2019s \u201cdaughter\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\">\n<p>Scanned from the physical document, which is cataloged at Wilson Library at UNC-Chapel Hill. They have proceedings from various years between 1896 and 1957.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4161\" src=\"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019-01-22-ncsfa1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"871\" srcset=\"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019-01-22-ncsfa1.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019-01-22-ncsfa1-300x163.jpg 300w, https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019-01-22-ncsfa1-1024x557.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019-01-22-ncsfa1-730x397.jpg 730w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4162\" src=\"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019-01-22-ncsfa2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"834\" srcset=\"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019-01-22-ncsfa2.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019-01-22-ncsfa2-300x156.jpg 300w, https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019-01-22-ncsfa2-1024x534.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019-01-22-ncsfa2-730x381.jpg 730w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-animation=\"no-animation\" data-icons-animation=\"no-animation\" data-overlay=\"on\" data-change-size=\"\" data-button-size=\"0.7\" style=\"font-size:0.7em!important;display:none;\" class=\"supsystic-social-sharing supsystic-social-sharing-package-flat supsystic-social-sharing-content supsystic-social-sharing-content-align-left\" data-text=\"\"><a data-networks=\"[]\" class=\"social-sharing-button sharer-flat sharer-flat-8 counter-standard without-counter facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Facebook\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Flegeros.com%2Fblog%2Fnorth-carolina-state-firemens-conference-proceedings-1896%2F\" data-main-href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u={url}\" data-nid=\"1\" data-name=\"\" data-pid=\"1\" data-post-id=\"4160\" data-url=\"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php\" data-description=\"North Carolina State Firemen\\'s Conference Proceedings, 1896\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-mailto=\"\"><i class=\"fa-ssbs fa-ssbs-fw fa-ssbs-facebook\"><span>Share<\/span><\/i><div class=\"counter-wrap standard\"><span class=\"counter\">0<\/span><\/div><\/a><a data-networks=\"[]\" class=\"social-sharing-button sharer-flat sharer-flat-8 counter-standard without-counter twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Twitter\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Flegeros.com%2Fblog%2Fnorth-carolina-state-firemens-conference-proceedings-1896%2F&text=North+Carolina+State+Firemen%26%238217%3Bs+Conference+Proceedings%2C+1896\" data-main-href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url={url}&text={title}\" data-nid=\"2\" data-name=\"\" data-pid=\"1\" data-post-id=\"4160\" data-url=\"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php\" data-description=\"North Carolina State Firemen\\'s Conference Proceedings, 1896\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-mailto=\"\"><i class=\"fa-ssbs fa-ssbs-fw fa-ssbs-twitter\"><span>Share<\/span><\/i><div class=\"counter-wrap standard\"><span class=\"counter\">0<\/span><\/div><\/a><a data-networks=\"[]\" class=\"social-sharing-button sharer-flat sharer-flat-8 counter-standard without-counter pinterest\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Pinterest\" href=\"http:\/\/pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/link\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flegeros.com%2Fblog%2Fnorth-carolina-state-firemens-conference-proceedings-1896%2F&description=North+Carolina+State+Firemen%26%238217%3Bs+Conference+Proceedings%2C+1896\" data-main-href=\"http:\/\/pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/link\/?url={url}&description={title}\" data-nid=\"7\" data-name=\"\" data-pid=\"1\" data-post-id=\"4160\" data-url=\"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php\" data-description=\"North Carolina State Firemen\\'s Conference Proceedings, 1896\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-mailto=\"\"><i class=\"fa-ssbs fa-ssbs-fw fa-ssbs-pinterest\"><span>Share<\/span><\/i><div class=\"counter-wrap standard\"><span class=\"counter\">0<\/span><\/div><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The North Carolina fire service is quite old, and goes all the way back to the late 1700s. 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