{"id":4832,"date":"2019-09-05T07:50:40","date_gmt":"2019-09-05T11:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/?p=4832"},"modified":"2019-09-05T07:55:17","modified_gmt":"2019-09-05T11:55:17","slug":"eagle-hose-mascot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/eagle-hose-mascot\/","title":{"rendered":"Miss Lillian Brown &#8211; Mascot of Greensboro&#8217;s Eagle Hose Company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the Department of Gender Studies, here are a couple stories from the 1890s about the Greensboro Fire Department&#8217;s Eagle Hose Company&#8217;s &#8220;mascot,&#8221; Miss Lillian Brown. Plus a photograph that appeared in the 1896 proceedings of the North Carolina State Firemen&#8217;s Association.<\/p>\n<p>Newspapers copied from newspapers.com, via free access from the NC State Government &amp; Heritage Library. 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