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   Fire pole cage and dormitory in Station No. 1.
 


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Caption:   Fire pole cage and dormitory in Station No. 1 (1986). When the Redwood City Volunteer Fire Department was formed in 1861, it was the first non-profit organization in San Mateo County. Ownership of the department was formally transferred to the city trustees in 1888. Station No. 1 on Middlefield Road was completed in 1920. The building was used as a fire stations until 1979, and subsequently remodeled for the city's Main Library building, completed in 1988. The former dormitory is now part of the Library's program room.
     
Photo Date:   1986
     
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   Redwood City Public Library
     
Subjects:  

Fire Departments -- Redwood City, CA

Fire Stations -- Redwood City, CA

Libraries -- Redwood City, CA
 
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