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'''1829''' - An engine house was built for the Friendly Fire Service, a private company.
The Andover Montessori School is located at 400 Main Street. When it opened in 1975 it rented space in the St Augustine School. In 1996 the school opened in its own building on 400 South Main Street. At that time it taught kindergarten through grade 6. It now includes preschool through grade 8.


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*[http://andoverhistorical.org/ Andover Historical Society]<br style="clear:both;" />
*"School: Town Can't Stop Growth", ''Eagle Tribune'', December 5, 2000, page 11.
*"Montessori Expansion Will Double the Size of the School", ''Andover Townsman'', April 26, 2001, page 11.
*[http://andovermontessori.org/ Andover School of Montessori]




'''1833''' - Town Meeting voted the sum of $365 to build an engine house on Essex Street.
1855 - The town splits.  North Andover gets two fire engines; Andover gets one.
'''1862''' - The Friendly Fire Society was renamed the Shawsheen Steam Fire Engine Company.
'''1882''' - A new fire station was built behind the Town Hall on Main Street
'''1895''' - The Ballardvale Station was relocated to the corner of Andover Street and Clark Road.
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*[http://andover.mvlc.org/opac/en-US/skin/default/xml/rdetail.xml?r=487303&t=ANDOVER%20CENTURY%20OF%20CHANGE&tp=keyword&d=0&hc=3&rt=keyword ''Andover a Century of Change:1896 - 1996''] by Eleanor Motley Richardson, (974.45 Ric), page 194.
[[Image:Andover_Town_Hall.jpg|thumb|...''The Andover Central Fire Station, circa 1910''.... click to enlarge|left]]
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--[[User:Eleanor|Eleanor]] ([[User talk:Eleanor|talk]]) 15:02, 5 November 2015 (EST)
*"Postcards from home," ''Andover Townsman'', December 25, 2014, p. 16. <br>
 
 
'''1924''' - Andover established a Fire Department with Charles Emerson appointed as the first Fire Chief.  By then "horses had become a thing of the past."
 
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* "1924," [http://andover.mvlc.org/opac/en-US/skin/default/xml/rresult.xml?rt=keyword&tp=keyword&t=Andover%20what%20it%20was&ft=&l=1&d=0&f=&av=Andover, What It Was, What It Is: 300th Anniversary, May 30 - June 2, 1946], (974.45 And)
 
 
'''1966''' - A new fire station was built in West Andover on Chandler Road.
 
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*[http://andover.mvlc.org/opac/en-US/skin/default/xml/rdetail.xml?r=487303&t=ANDOVER%20CENTURY%20OF%20CHANGE&tp=keyword&d=0&hc=3&rt=keyword''Andover a Century of Change:1896 - 1996''] by Eleanor Motley Richardson, (974.45 Ric), page 194.
 
 
'''1997'''<br>
The Fire Department bought a hovercraft to aid water/ ice rescues.
 
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*"Fire Department Will Hover to the Rescue",'' Townsman'', August 28, 1997, page 1.
 
 
'''2002''' <br>
In September Main Street Fire Station was razed and construction was begun on the [[Andover Public Safety Center]] to house both fire and police. 
 
 
'''2006''' -  There are three fire stations in Andover:
* Central Headquarters at 32 Main Street
* West Fire Substation at 200 Greenwood Road
* Ballardvale Fire Substation at 1 Clark Road
 
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*  [http://www.andoverps.net/fire/ Andover Fire Rescue]
*"Decisions Await", ''Andover Townsman'', July 10, 2008, page 1.
*"Andover Mulls the Future of Ballardvale Fire Station", ''Eagle Tribune'', March 17, 2009, page 1 and 4.
*"Vote a Step Toward Replacing Ballardvale Fire Station", ''Andover Townsman'', June 4, 2009, page 5.
*"Two sites eyed in final Ballardvale fire station plan," ''Andover Townsman'', October 10, 2013, p. 1.
*"New options for Ballardvale fire station," ''Andover Townsman'', 6 February 2014, p. 1.
 
 


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The Andover Montessori School is located at 400 Main Street. When it opened in 1975 it rented space in the St Augustine School. In 1996 the school opened in its own building on 400 South Main Street. At that time it taught kindergarten through grade 6. It now includes preschool through grade 8.

See

  • "School: Town Can't Stop Growth", Eagle Tribune, December 5, 2000, page 11.
  • "Montessori Expansion Will Double the Size of the School", Andover Townsman, April 26, 2001, page 11.
  • Andover School of Montessori



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