{"id":567,"date":"2016-04-08T20:09:41","date_gmt":"2016-04-09T00:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/?p=567"},"modified":"2018-07-30T20:50:32","modified_gmt":"2018-07-31T00:50:32","slug":"in-charlotte-this-weekend-concords-1887-ladder-wagon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/in-charlotte-this-weekend-concords-1887-ladder-wagon\/","title":{"rendered":"In Charlotte This Weekend &#8211; Concord&#8217;s 1887 Ladder Wagon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Concord Fire Department will display a restored hand-drawn ladder wagon this weekend, at the Pennzoil Charlotte AutoFair at the Charlotte Motor Speedway. As this<a href=\"http:\/\/www.independenttribune.com\/news\/concord-fire-wagon-on-display-with-other-vintage-fire-equipment\/article_fa34b57c-fd87-11e5-bba2-cbbd0930a864.html\"><em> Independent Tribute<\/em> story<\/a> (thanks Josh!) by Erin Kidd reports, the 129-year-old wagon was used by the Concord Hook and Ladder Company in 1887.<\/p>\n<p>That was a company of black firefighters who organized that year, and the first formal fire company in the city. The wagon carried wooden ladders, pike poles, and axes. The department acquired the wagon from a local family, and Concord Fire Captain Allen Smith has been restoring the thing for the last two years.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a nice <a href=\"https:\/\/www.concordnc.gov\/Departments\/Fire\/Department-History\">history of CFD<\/a>, from their official web site.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_568\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-568\" src=\"http:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015-04-08-cfd1.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"417\" srcset=\"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015-04-08-cfd1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015-04-08-cfd1-300x209.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">James Nix \/ Independent Tribune photo<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_569\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-569\" src=\"http:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015-04-08-cfd2.jpg\" alt=\"James Nix \/ Independent Tribune photo\" width=\"600\" height=\"417\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">James Nix \/ Independent Tribune photo<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_570\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-570\" src=\"http:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015-04-08-cfd3.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"401\" srcset=\"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015-04-08-cfd3.jpg 600w, https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015-04-08-cfd3-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">James Nix \/ Independent Tribune photo<\/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%2Fin-charlotte-this-weekend-concords-1887-ladder-wagon%2F\" data-main-href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u={url}\" data-nid=\"1\" data-name=\"\" data-pid=\"1\" data-post-id=\"567\" data-url=\"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php\" data-description=\"In Charlotte This Weekend - Concord\\'s 1887 Ladder Wagon\" 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%2Fin-charlotte-this-weekend-concords-1887-ladder-wagon%2F&text=In+Charlotte+This+Weekend+%26%238211%3B+Concord%26%238217%3Bs+1887+Ladder+Wagon\" data-main-href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url={url}&text={title}\" data-nid=\"2\" data-name=\"\" data-pid=\"1\" data-post-id=\"567\" data-url=\"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php\" data-description=\"In Charlotte This Weekend - Concord\\'s 1887 Ladder Wagon\" 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%2Fin-charlotte-this-weekend-concords-1887-ladder-wagon%2F&description=In+Charlotte+This+Weekend+%26%238211%3B+Concord%26%238217%3Bs+1887+Ladder+Wagon\" data-main-href=\"http:\/\/pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/link\/?url={url}&description={title}\" data-nid=\"7\" data-name=\"\" data-pid=\"1\" data-post-id=\"567\" data-url=\"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php\" data-description=\"In Charlotte This Weekend - Concord\\'s 1887 Ladder Wagon\" 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 Concord Fire Department will display a restored hand-drawn ladder wagon this weekend, at the Pennzoil Charlotte AutoFair at the Charlotte Motor Speedway. 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