{"id":4811,"date":"2019-08-26T21:03:03","date_gmt":"2019-08-27T01:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/?p=4811"},"modified":"2019-08-26T21:17:20","modified_gmt":"2019-08-27T01:17:20","slug":"wilmington-1842","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wilmington-1842\/","title":{"rendered":"Wilmington Fire Department Organized &#8211; 1842"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Found these last week. Newspaper article about an early iteration of the Wilmington Fire Department in 1842. Might be the original or first &#8220;formal&#8221; version of WFD. Plus an editorial from the year before, with detailed suggestions for same. Plus an account of the great 1840 fire, that they reference.<\/p>\n<p>From newspapers.com via free access from the <a href=\"https:\/\/statelibrary.ncdcr.gov\/\">State Library of North Carolina<\/a>. This is a blog version of a posting from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/LegerosFire\">Legeros Fire Line<\/a> on Facebook, one of several recent postings poking into the earliest histories of the state&#8217;s oldest fire departments. Click to enlarge:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019-08-26-wfd1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4812\" src=\"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019-08-26-wfd1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"969\" srcset=\"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019-08-26-wfd1.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019-08-26-wfd1-300x242.jpg 300w, https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019-08-26-wfd1-1024x827.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019-08-26-wfd1-730x589.jpg 730w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019-08-26-wfd2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4813\" src=\"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019-08-26-wfd2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1065\" srcset=\"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019-08-26-wfd2.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019-08-26-wfd2-300x266.jpg 300w, https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019-08-26-wfd2-1024x909.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019-08-26-wfd2-730x648.jpg 730w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019-08-26-wfd3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4814\" src=\"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019-08-26-wfd3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1545\" srcset=\"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019-08-26-wfd3.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019-08-26-wfd3-233x300.jpg 233w, https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019-08-26-wfd3-795x1024.jpg 795w, https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019-08-26-wfd3-730x940.jpg 730w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/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%2Fwilmington-1842%2F\" data-main-href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u={url}\" data-nid=\"1\" data-name=\"\" data-pid=\"1\" data-post-id=\"4811\" data-url=\"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php\" data-description=\"Wilmington Fire Department Organized - 1842\" 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%2Fwilmington-1842%2F&text=Wilmington+Fire+Department+Organized+%26%238211%3B+1842\" data-main-href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url={url}&text={title}\" data-nid=\"2\" data-name=\"\" data-pid=\"1\" data-post-id=\"4811\" data-url=\"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php\" data-description=\"Wilmington Fire Department Organized - 1842\" 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%2Fwilmington-1842%2F&description=Wilmington+Fire+Department+Organized+%26%238211%3B+1842\" data-main-href=\"http:\/\/pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/link\/?url={url}&description={title}\" data-nid=\"7\" data-name=\"\" data-pid=\"1\" data-post-id=\"4811\" data-url=\"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php\" data-description=\"Wilmington Fire Department Organized - 1842\" 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>Found these last week. 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