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 Ladies Auxiliary of Flourtown Fire Company have created a cookbook to commemorate the auxiliary’s 90th Anniversary and the 100th Anniversary of Flourtown Fire Company. Filled with 160 recipes collected from the members of Flourtown Fire Company and their families the cookbooks are a diverse collection of comfort food recipes and new twists on classic [...]
PDF coloring storybook of Flourtown Fire Company’s 1936 firetruck “the Little Hahn”
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 [...]
