History by Mike Legeros

• Raleigh FD
• RDU Airport FD
• Wake County Fire Histories
• Raleigh/Wake County Rescue & EMS

See also: Raleigh Fire Museum ^

• Hidden Raleigh
• Historic Raleigh (in Postcards)
• Vanished Raleigh

• Falls Lake History - New! Jan 2020!
• Historic Millbrook
• North Hills Sniper - 1972
• Polk Youth Center - New! Apr 2020!
• Raleigh Airfields of the Past
• Raleigh Riots - 1968
• Raleigh Streetcar Map - 1914 - New! Dec 2019!
• Walnut Terrace - Then & Now & More 

• Apparatus
  • Fire Boats of Wilmington
  • Hand Engines
  • Horses
  • Steam Engines
  • See also Fleets
• Associations
  • Histories
  • NCSFA Secretary Reports
  • NCSFA Statistician Reports
  • Vintage Proceedings - New!
• Charts
  • Diagrams and family trees
• Conventions
  • Dates and Locations
  • Stories and Clippings
• Departments
  • Former
  • Military
  • Then and Now
  • See also list of cities below
• Disasters
  • Database
• Fallen Firefighters
  • Stories
  • Database
• Firefighters
  • Black Firefighters, Early, Annotated
  • Early Fire Companies

• Fires
  • Deadliest
  • Largest
  • Stories, From Fire-Rescue Journal
• Fleets 
  • Histories
• General
  • General history
• History Books
  • Digital library - New!
• Laws
  • 1745 to 1924  - More Added!
• Library
  • Digital library - New!
• Lookout Towers
  • Information
• Military
  • Fire Departments
• Museums
  • Galleries of Photos^
• Publications
  • Hose & Nozzle
  • Tar Heel Firefighter - New!
• Stations
  • Lists Past 'n' Present
  • Former/Historic, Database
  • Former/Historic (stories)
  • Former/Historic^ (photos)
  • See also list of cities below
• Tournaments
  • Information
  • Stories and Clippings

Atlanta, GA

Baltimore, MD

Camden, NJ

Charleston, SC

Chicago, IL

Des Moines, IL

Detroit, MI

District of Columbia

Duluth, MN

Fort Lauderdale, FL

Grand Rapids, MI

Indianapolis, IN

Key West, FL

Louisville, KY

Milwaukee, WI

Minneapolis, MN

Philadelphia, PA

Quad Cities, IL/IA

Richmond, VA

Roanoke, VA

San Francisco, CA

Savannah, GA

Other Odd History

• Benton Harbor, MI - House of David - Blog post | Photos
• Fort Mills, SC - Heritage USA - Photos
• Holly Ridge, NC - Camp Davis
• Key West, FL - Missile site - Photos
• Miami, FL - Naval Air Station Richmond - Photos
• Myrtle Beach, SC - Myrtle Beach Air Force Base - Photos
• Soul City, NC - Blog post | Photos
  
• Topsail Island (NC) Towers

Related Fire Blog Posts

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• 87 South FD History (2017)
• Biltmore Fire Departments (2015)
• Buncombe Co. Former FDs (2014)
• Cary FD Fleet Listing (2014)
• Cary FD Rescue Trucks (2014)
• Chapel Hill Fleet Listing (2014)
• Charlotte FD Fleet Listing (2014)
• Crabtree Creek Abandoned Bridge (2014)
• Durham FD Fleet Listing (2014)
• Durham FD History Bits (2014)
• Durham Rescue/EMS History (2014)
• Edenton Fire Stations (2013)
• Elon College Fire Depts (2013)
• Falls Lake, Before (2014)
• Fayetteville FD - History | Fleet (2014)
• Fort Fisher Air Station FD (2014)
• Goldsboro Old Crash Truck (2014)
• Government Morehead School (2014)
• Ground Observer Corps (2010)
• Guilford County Rural Fire Protection (2017)
• Judge Biggs, Isaac Hunter...  (2014)
• Kidd Brewer House (2010)
• Locust FD Early History (2017)
• MCAS Edenton FD (2014)
• National Board Fire Und. Reports (2014)
• NC Ambulance Study 1965 (2014)
• NC Rescue Squad History (2013)
• North Asheboro FD (2017)
• Raleigh North-South Freeway (2014)
• Raleigh Speedway (2011)
• Shelby Firefighters Killed in Gas Explosion, 1979 (2018)
• Snorkels in NC (2014)
• UNC Campus and Train Tracks (2017)
• Wake County Fire Service Governance History (2014)
• Wake County's Deadliest Motor-Vehicle Accident, 1976 (2014)
• Wayne County Rescue Squads (2014)
• Weeksville Blimp Base (2011)
• Wilmington FD Fleet Listing (2014)
• Zebulon's First Fire Engine (2010)

Page last updated February 25, 2020