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| '''1829''' - An engine house was built for the Friendly Fire Service, a private company.
| | The Cross Coal Company in Andover was founded by Captain Jerome Cross in 1864. The company began cutting cord wood in Pleasant Valley and hauling across the Merrimack River by barge. He soon expanded to hauling anthracite coal from Newburyport to to Lawrence and Andover. By 1900 the coal was transported to Andover by railroad. In 1909 the company incorporated and expanded into the oil business in 1933. |
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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.
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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.
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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 style="clear:both;" />
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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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| * "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)
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| *"Past and Present" The Townsman, April 20, 2006
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| '''1966''' - A new fire station was built in West Andover on Chandler Road.
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| '''1997'''<br>
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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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| '''2002''' <br>
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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]] 15:34, August 23, 2006 (EDT)<br style="clear:both;" />
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| --[[User:Eleanor|Eleanor]] ([[User talk:Eleanor|talk]]) 15:05, 5 November 2015 (EST)<br>
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| --[[User:Eleanor|Eleanor]] ([[User talk:Eleanor|talk]]) 15:06, 27 April 2016 (EDT)
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