{"id":4374,"date":"2019-04-19T07:26:09","date_gmt":"2019-04-19T11:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/?p=4374"},"modified":"2019-07-27T08:33:33","modified_gmt":"2019-07-27T12:33:33","slug":"rocky-mount-history-book-1996","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/rocky-mount-history-book-1996\/","title":{"rendered":"Rocky Mount Fire Department Centennial History Book &#8211; 1996"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>This is a blog version of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/LegerosFire\/photos\/a.680825135279051\/2623451971016348\/?type=3&amp;theater\">this Facebook posting<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>For your Friday reading pleasure, here&#8217;s a digitized version of the Rocky Mount Fire Department&#8217;s centennial history book. It was published in 1996 and is one of a handful of early NC FD history books.[1] It was scanned from a copy at <a href=\"https:\/\/library.unc.edu\/wilson\/\">Wilson Library<\/a> at the University of North Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve posted a PDF to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.legeros.com\/history\/library\/\">new site on my site<\/a>, where I&#8217;m adding other books and booklets from my archives. Both complete and excerpts. Have better versions of those I&#8217;ve posted? Have others that I don&#8217;t have? Send me a note! And watch for updates on the site&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>[1] Other early NC FD history books include Raleigh and Greensboro in 1984, Wilmington in 1985, Winston-Salem in 1992, and Durham in 1995.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4376\" src=\"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/banner.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/banner.png 900w, https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/banner-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/banner-730x487.png 730w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\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%2Frocky-mount-history-book-1996%2F\" data-main-href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u={url}\" data-nid=\"1\" data-name=\"\" data-pid=\"1\" data-post-id=\"4374\" data-url=\"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php\" data-description=\"Rocky Mount Fire Department Centennial History Book - 1996\" 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%2Frocky-mount-history-book-1996%2F&text=Rocky+Mount+Fire+Department+Centennial+History+Book+%26%238211%3B+1996\" data-main-href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url={url}&text={title}\" data-nid=\"2\" data-name=\"\" data-pid=\"1\" data-post-id=\"4374\" data-url=\"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php\" data-description=\"Rocky Mount Fire Department Centennial History Book - 1996\" 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%2Frocky-mount-history-book-1996%2F&description=Rocky+Mount+Fire+Department+Centennial+History+Book+%26%238211%3B+1996\" data-main-href=\"http:\/\/pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/link\/?url={url}&description={title}\" data-nid=\"7\" data-name=\"\" data-pid=\"1\" data-post-id=\"4374\" data-url=\"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php\" data-description=\"Rocky Mount Fire Department Centennial History Book - 1996\" 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>This is a blog version of\u00a0this Facebook posting.\u00a0 For your Friday reading pleasure, here&#8217;s a digitized version of the Rocky Mount Fire Department&#8217;s centennial history book. It was published in 1996 and is one of a handful of early NC FD history books.[1] It was scanned from a copy at Wilson Library at the University &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/rocky-mount-history-book-1996\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Rocky Mount Fire Department Centennial History Book &#8211; 1996&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\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%2Frocky-mount-history-book-1996%2F\" data-main-href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u={url}\" data-nid=\"1\" data-name=\"\" data-pid=\"1\" data-post-id=\"4374\" data-url=\"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php\" data-description=\"Rocky Mount Fire Department Centennial History Book - 1996\" 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%2Frocky-mount-history-book-1996%2F&text=Rocky+Mount+Fire+Department+Centennial+History+Book+%26%238211%3B+1996\" data-main-href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url={url}&text={title}\" data-nid=\"2\" data-name=\"\" data-pid=\"1\" data-post-id=\"4374\" data-url=\"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php\" data-description=\"Rocky Mount Fire Department Centennial History Book - 1996\" 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%2Frocky-mount-history-book-1996%2F&description=Rocky+Mount+Fire+Department+Centennial+History+Book+%26%238211%3B+1996\" data-main-href=\"http:\/\/pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/link\/?url={url}&description={title}\" data-nid=\"7\" data-name=\"\" data-pid=\"1\" data-post-id=\"4374\" data-url=\"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php\" data-description=\"Rocky Mount Fire Department Centennial History Book - 1996\" 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},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4374"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4374"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4718,"href":"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4374\/revisions\/4718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}