On Saturday, April 3rd members of the Flourtown Fire Company took on a project to bring down a piece of our history from atop the old firehouse. The “old bell”, was used to alert the firefights of a fire alarm before it was replaced by the mechanical siren that we use today. We plan to [...]
The bell on top of the old firehouse will be coming down weather permitting.
In the Beginning … On September 1, 1910, a group of community-minded individuals met in the Odd Fellows’ Hall (now called the Lodge located on Bethlehem Pike) for the express purpose of organizing a Volunteer Fire Company. This group recognized an existing need in Flourtown, for in, 1909, a fire on West Mill Road destroyed [...]
