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Dateca. 1820
Terms
- Fire Buckets
- Metal
- Leather
- Paint
- Massachusetts
Dimensions32.38 × 22.86 cm (12 3/4 × 9 in.)
Credit LineGift of Olive V.D. Bryson (2009)
Object number2010.5.2
DescriptionPair of leather fire buckets (.1-.2); metal rings. Brown leather painted with a crest and "N. Brooks/ 1794". Excellent condition; some restorative work has been done on both buckets.
From label copy ("into your hands..." 2010): Nathan Brooks joined the Fire Society in 1820. The date 1794 on this bucket commemorates the founding of the Fire Society; the bucket itself was made about 1820. Forty-five men who lived and worked on Concord's Milldam organized themselves into the Fire Society in 1794. They pledged to respond to any fire in the center of town, each of them carrying two ladders, two fire buckets and two linen bags. The ladders were to reach the roof, the fire buckets to fill a portable water pump, and the linen bags to salvage the contents of the building.
From label copy ("into your hands..." 2010): Nathan Brooks joined the Fire Society in 1820. The date 1794 on this bucket commemorates the founding of the Fire Society; the bucket itself was made about 1820. Forty-five men who lived and worked on Concord's Milldam organized themselves into the Fire Society in 1794. They pledged to respond to any fire in the center of town, each of them carrying two ladders, two fire buckets and two linen bags. The ladders were to reach the roof, the fire buckets to fill a portable water pump, and the linen bags to salvage the contents of the building.
