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| '''1829''' - An engine house was built for the Friendly Fire Service, a private company.
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| '''1833''' - Town Meeting voted the sum of $365 to build an engine house on Essex Street.
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| 1855 - The town splits. North Andover gets two fire engines; Andover gets one.
| | The Shawsheen Indians beat the Chicago Canadians on April 20, 1924, becoming the first team to become champions on their first try for the national soccer championship. The final score was Shawseen Indians 3 / Chicago Canadians 0. |
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| '''1862''' - The Friendly Fire Society was renamed the Shawsheen Steam Fire Engine Company.
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| '''1882''' - A new fire station was built behind the Town Hall on Main Street
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| '''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. | | *''Andover Townsman'', "Win National Honors", April 24, 1925 |
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| [[Image:Andover_Town_Hall.jpg|thumb|...''The Andover Central Fire Station, circa 1910''.... click to enlarge|left]]
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| *"Postcards from home," ''Andover Townsman'', December 25, 2014, p. 16. <br>
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| | Click [http://www.mhl.org/answers/images/9/9c/Shawsheenindians.pdf here] for a PDF version of this article (64k). |
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| '''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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| '''1966''' - A new fire station was built in West Andover on Chandler Road.
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| 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.
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| In September Main Street Fire Station was razed and construction was begun on the [[Andover Public Safety Center]] to house both fire and police.
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| '''2006''' - There are three fire stations in Andover:
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| * Central Headquarters at 32 Main Street
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| * West Fire Substation at 200 Greenwood Road
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| * Ballardvale Fire Substation at 1 Clark Road
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| * [http://www.andoverps.net/fire/ Andover Fire Rescue]
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| *"Decisions Await", ''Andover Townsman'', July 10, 2008, page 1.
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| *"Andover Mulls the Future of Ballardvale Fire Station", ''Eagle Tribune'', March 17, 2009, page 1 and 4.
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| *"Vote a Step Toward Replacing Ballardvale Fire Station", ''Andover Townsman'', June 4, 2009, page 5.
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| *"Two sites eyed in final Ballardvale fire station plan," ''Andover Townsman'', October 10, 2013, p. 1.
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| *"New options for Ballardvale fire station," ''Andover Townsman'', 6 February 2014, p. 1.
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| | --[[User:Eleanor|Eleanor]] 16:19, May 8, 2007 (EDT) |
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| --[[User:Eleanor|Eleanor]] ([[User talk:Eleanor|talk]]) 15:05, 5 November 2015 (EST)
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