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1886-87, William M. Baird;
1892-94, L. Milton Wilson;
1893, Richard H. Sheppard;
1894-95, Samuel V. Davis;
1896-98, Alfred L. Flummer- felt;
1896-98, William K. Bowers; 1899-1901, Hiram D. White; 1899-1901, Jacob B. Smith;
1902, William R. Laire;
1903-05, John A. Wildrick;
1906-08, Joseph H. Firth; 1909, Harry B. Moon;
1852, John Cline;
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1850-50, John F. Randolph; 1880-85, William L. Hoagland;
1850-55, Simeon Cook;
1 885-90, Theodore Hopler ;
1855-60, Jehiel T. Kern; 1890-95, John A. Wildrick;
1860-65, William F. Wire; 1895-1900, Charles A. Harris;
1865-70, William Winter;
1900-05, Rowland Firth;
1870-70, Henry Winter;
1905-10, Charles Hoagland;
1870-75, John Simerson;
1910-15, G. Howell Mutchler.
1875-80, James E. Moon;
The following have served as Judges of the Court of Common Pleas :
1825-John Kinney, Robert C. Thomson, William Ken- nedy, Jabez Gwinnup, Job Johnson, Charles Carter; 1826-John Armstrong, Garret Lacy;
1828-John Stinson, Daniel Vliet, William McCullough, Henry M. Winter; 1829-John Kinney, Jabez Gwin- nup, William P. Robeson, William Kennedy, William Hankinson;
1830-Robert H. Kennedy, Charles Carter;
1831-John Moore, Garret Lacey, Abraham Warne, Peter W. Blair; 1832-Garret Vliet, Daniel Vliet ; .
1833-John Stinson, William Mccullough, James Davi- son ;
1834- Abraham Van Campen, John Kinney; 1835-Henry Van Nest, Caleb H. Valentine, Charles J. Ihrie, Robert H. Kennedy; 1836-John Moore, Caleb H. Valentine, Daniel Axford, Peter W. Blair ;
1837-Daniel Vliet, William P. Robeson, Robert S. Ken- nedy ;
1838-Elias Mushback, John Stinson, Job Johnson, Dan- iel Axford, William M. Warne;
1839-Abraham Van Campen, Benjamin Shackleton, Jer- emy Mackey, James Egbert, Isaac Wildrick;
. 1841-David M. Stiger;
1842 -- Robert S. Kennedy, Will- iam P. Robeson;
1843-Elias Mushback, Peter W. Blair, Caleb H. Valen- tine, John Stinson, Philip Fine, John Moore;
1844-John G. Johnston, Henry M. Winter, Jacob H. Win- ter, Spencer C. Smith, Thos. Scureman, Samuel Hibler, Simon F. Wyckoff, Samuel Shoemaker, Jeremy Mac- key, Charles J. Ihrie;
1845-Benjamin Shackleton, Henry D. Swayze, Daniel Vanbuskirk;
1846-James I. Browne, John Dill; 1847-Robert S. Kennedy;
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1848-James Boyd;
1849-William P. Robeson;
1850-Benjamin Shackleton, Simeon Cooke;
1851-Andrew Ribble;
1852-John Moore;
1853-James Davison, William R. Sharp;
1854-James Fisher;
1856-Wesley Banghart;
1857-James Davison ;
1858-William R. Sharp;
1859-John Moore;
1860-Jacob Sharp; 1862-Lewis C. Reese ;
1863-Jacob Sharp;
1864-Philip H. Hann;
1867-Jesse Stewart, Jr .;
1868-Jehiel T. Kern;
1869-Philip H. Hann;
1872-James M. Robeson;
1873-Jesse Stewart, Jr .;
1874-Samuel Sherrerd, Robert Rusling ; 1877-Joseph Vliet;
1878-Jehiel T. Kern;
1879-James Somerville, Will- iam H. Morrow; 1883-89-Silas W. Dewitt, Geo. H. Beatty, Uzal Canfield;
1889-92-Irwin W. Shultz, Wil- liam H. Dawes, Hiram D. White; 1892-O. P. Chamberlin; 1893-98-William H. Morrow; 1898-1913-George M. Ship- man.
SHERIFFS.
1825-28, George Mushback ; 1875-78, John Gardner;
1828-30, Isaac Shipman;
1830-33, Henry M. Winter ;
1833-39, Abram Freese;
1839-42, Isaac Wildrick;
1842-45, Daniel F. Winter; 1845, William Winter;
1846-48, Daniel Van Buskirk;
1848-51, George Titman;
1851-54, John J. Van Kirk;
1854-57, Jacob Sharp; 1857-60, William Sweeney; 1860-63, William Armstrong; 1863-66, Joseph Anderson;
1866-69, Albert K. Metz;
1 869-72, Samuel H. Lanterman; 1872-75, Henry Winter;
1878-81, Benjamin F. Howey;
1881-84, Wiliam K. Bowers;
1884-87, George H. Van Cam- pen ; 1887-90, George Lommasson;
1890-93, Michael Weller ;
1893-95, Benjamin Swarts;
1895-96, William A. Morrow;
1896-99, Elias J. Mackey ;
1899-1902, George Cole; 1902-1905, Wm. Judson Bar- ker; 1905-1908, Andrew Merrick; 1908-1911, Theophilus H. Wie- der.
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PROSECUTORS OF THE PLEAS.
1829-1850, William C. Morris; 1881-91, Sylvester C. Smith;
1850-55, Phineas B. Kennedy ;
1891-1901, William A. Stryker;
1855-60, Joseph Vliet; 1901-06, George A. Angle;
1860-65, James M. Robeson;
1906-1I, John I. B. Reilly;
1865-77, Joseph Vliet;
1877-81, Henry S. Harris;
1911-16, William A. Stryker.
CHAPTER XII.
CIVIL DIVISIONS OF WARREN COUNTY.
The present civil divisions of Warren and Sussex counties have all been formed from the four townships into which Sussex County was divided at the time of its erection. They were Newtown, which formed nearly all of the present Sussex County east of the Blue Moun- tains; Walpack, which included all the territory between the Blue Mountains and the Delaware River, extending from the Water Gap to Port Jervis; Hardwick, from which have been taken Independence, Hackettstown, Allamuchy, Frelinghuysen, Stillwater and Green; while all the rest formed the large township called Greenwich, that reached from the Blue Mountains to the extreme southern part of the county. Pahaquarry is that part of Walpack lying in Warren County and dates from November 20, 1824. Hardwick and Greenwich townships were defined at some unknown time before 1738. In 1.782 Hardwick was divided into Hardwick (including Frelinghuysen and Stillwater), and Independence. These two parts had been known for some time before 1782 as Upper and Lower Hardwick. In 1824 Independence lost Green Township to Sussex County; in 1853 Hackettstown was erected. from Independence, and in 1872 Allamuchy was formed, leaving Inde- pendence with its present boundaries. When the county was formed in 1824 Hardwick lost that part over the Sussex County line known as Stillwater and the remainder was divided in 1848, the Paulins Kill being the dividing line between the present Hardwick and the new township called Frelinghuysen. A small portion of both Hardwick and Frelinghuysen was added to Blairstown later.
In 1754 Greenwich was divided into three parts, called Green- wich, Oxford and Mansfield Woodhouse. From Oxford in 1764 was
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taken Knowlton, and from Knowlton was taken Blairstown in 1845. Hope was erected out of parts of Oxford and Knowlton in 1839, and Harmony from parts of Greenwich and Oxford in the same year. Mansfield Woodhouse became Mansfield in the new county and from it was taken Washington in 1849. Washington Borough was erected in the center of the township in 1868. Greenwich in 1839 lost Franklin and in 1851 a part of Phillipsburg, the other part coming from Harmony. In 1861 Lopatcong was taken from Phillipsburg, which then became a borough and received an addition from Lopatcong in 1903.
In March 24, 1881, what was left of Greenwich was divided into two parts called Greenwich and Pohatcong.
CHAPTER XIII.
ALLAMUCHY.
Allamuchy Township, named from its principal town, was formed from a part of Independence, in 1872. Allamuchy has the proud dis- tinction of bearing its name longer than any other town in Warren County. Here from time immemorial was an Indian village called Allamuchahokkingen, or Allamucha, which is mentioned by the earliest surveys of this region, made in 1715. The earliest white settlers were Quakers. Among the early merchants were James Shotwell, Stephen Kennedy and Paul Angle. In 1834 it had a grist mill, a saw mill, a grain distillery, a store, a tavern and a dozen dwellings. It is a station on the Lehigh and Hudson River railroad, is situated near a beautiful lake bearing its name, and has in its vicinity two of the finest country seats in America.
John Rutherford, a grandson of James Alexander, surveyor-gen- eral, and one of the proprietors of New Jersey, settled on the estate at Tranquility and Allamuchy, still occupied by his descendants. He be- came a member of the Legislature in 1788, and in 1790 and again in 1796 was elected to the Senate of the United States. Mr. Rutherford Stuyvesant, a descendant of Peter Stuyvesant and of John Rutherford, added hundreds of acres to the ancestral estate and called the whole Tranquility Farms. His kennels won many prizes, and his sheep could not be equalled in America. His game preserve first made the English pheasant known in our county. A deer park of hundreds of acres is part of the estate.
In 1715 John Reading, a deputy surveyor, on a warrant dated March 10, 1715, laid out for William Penn a tract of land described as follows: "On both sides of the Paquaessing River upon an Indian
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Residence of Winthrop Rutherford, Allamuchy, N. J.
path which leads from Allamuchahokin to Pahackqualong," which, when modernized, becomes "On both sides of the Pequest River upon an Indian path which leads from Allamuchy to Pahaquarry." The Quaker meeting house and burying ground are a part of this tract, and are at the point where the Indian trail crossed the Pequest on its way from the Delaware across the Kittatinny Mountain through Marks- boro, Johnsonsburg, Allamuchy, Hackettstown, Budds Lake and on to the sea.
The Quaker Settlement has been the name of the locality at the northeastern end of the Great Meadows since 1745. As early as July of that year public meetings were held for the worship of God. On July 8, 1745, Samuel Willson, Jr., was appointed by the Kingwood meeting of Hunterdon County to serve as an overseer at the Hardwick particular meeting. In 1752 Richard Penn, also a Quaker, and grand- son of William Penn, gave a deed for land "for a Friends' meeting house forever." A log meeting house was soon built, which was suc- ceeded in 1764 by a substantial stone structure, which stood for more
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than a century, or till 1866, when it was torn down, and on its founda- tions were built the Quaker public school house.
In this locality settled many families of the Hardwick Society of Friends, who came mostly from Kingwood, New Jersey, and Bucks County, Pa. Their names were Lundy, Dyer, Willson, Schooley, Willetts, Schmuck, Shotwell, Brotherton and Laing, and later Adams, Buckley and Hoey, some of which names are still well known in the vicinity, but since the dissolution of the society in 1855 the families have scattered all over the continent, and only a few of those that remain are of their ancient belief.
The Quaker Settlement was a station on "the Underground Rail- road" between Quakertown, Hunterdon County and the Drowned Lands of Sussex County, that was used by many fugitive slaves on their . way to freedom in Canada.
The Lundy family-Sylvester Lundy, of Axminster County of Devon, England, has a son, Richard Lundy, who was born in England, emigrated to New England in 1676, settled, 1682, in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and was a Quaker elder. His son, Richard Lundy, was born in 1692, moved to Allamuchy in 1747, and died there in 1772. He was an elder in the Society of Friends, and was active in establish- ing three new meetings or churches, viz :- the Buckingham, the Plum- stead and the Hardwick. He has many descendants in America. Richard Lundy was a justice of the peace in 1749. At his death he gave to his son, Samuel, all his real estate. He had five sons and four daughters, all of whom settled and lived their lives in the vicinity.
Warrenville, or Wiretown, was formerly a town doing consider- able business. It had a carriage factory, a foundry, a store and a hotel. Long Bridge is a station on the L. & H. railroad, and has a creamery. The old stone house nearby was built by Captain Daniel Vliet.
There are four schools in the township, named Meadville, Saxton Falls, Allamuchy and Quaker. The township has at present no churches.
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Meadville, called also Arnoldtown and Alphano, has a muck drying plant capable of preparing thirty tons of muck a day, which is used as a filler for fertilizers. Many acres of celery, lettuce and onions are cultivated here on the rich meadow land.
NOTE: The author has received valuable aid from the genealogical publications of William Clinton Armstrong, A. M., who was born at Johnsonsburg, educated at Princeton, and is now Superintendent of Schools of New Brunswick, New Jersey.
CHAPTER XIV.
BELVIDERE.
Belvidere was a part of Oxford Township until 1845, when it was organized as a borough. Before 1754 it was a part of Greenwich, and the vicinity of Belvidere as far as the Oxford Meeting House was frequently spoken of as Upper Greenwich, or Greenwich on the Dela- ware.
On October 8th and 9th, 1716, there were surveyed by John Read- ing two tracts of land on the site of Belvidere. These were separated by a line beginning at the mouth of the Pequest and running along what was later Independence Street, which leads now to the farm of Mr. E. H. Carhart. The tract to the north of that line was for 1,250 acres or more, and was surveyed for William Penn. The tract to the south was of the same size, and was surveyed to Colonel John Alford, of Charleston, Massachusetts. The McMurtries came into possession of the Alford tract in 1750, and Robert Patterson, the first settler in Belvidere, bought the Penn tract in 1759. Robert Patterson was a tinsmith, and built a double log house on the site of the Warren House. He sold a great deal of his property in the seventeen sixties, and seems to have left by 1769, when Major Robert Hoops came and purchased the land on both sides of the Pequest. He retained the property on the north side of the creek until about 1800, but sold all south of the Pequest, including the water powers, to Robert Morris, the financier of the Revolution, who built the house on Greenwich Street (now owned by Dr. Lefferts) in 1780, for his daughter, Mrs. Croxall, to whom he conveyed it in 1793 by a deed containing an entail, which delayed the development of that part of the town for many years, or until a special
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act of the Legislature in 1818 gave the ownership to four heirs in fee simple.
Major Hoops was a very active business man. He had a saw mill and a grist mill. He dealt in grain, and shipped flour and produce to Philadelphia by Durham boats. He did much to make the present channel through Foul Rift. During the Revolution he had a slaughter house on the site of D. C. Blair's barn, from which many wagonloads of beef and pork were hauled to Morristown for Washington's hungry army. He laid out all of the northern half of the town into streets and lots as they are at present, and called the town Mercer. Before 1800 he had parted with his holdings, mainly to Thomas Paul and Mr. Hyndshaw, and retired to Virginia.
We find the name Belvidere first used in 1791 by Major Hoops in a letter now in possession of Miss Mary Clark. It was written to Richard Backhouse, Esquire, Durham, and reads as follows:
Dear Sir :
The day you left me in the afternoon with seven hands I made a beginning and compleated Passage through the little foul Rift fit for a Boat to pass with 100 or 150 Bushels without touching; and was it not for the three points where the Hatchet was raised against me I should be perfectly easy-but industry and perseverance will, I hope, overcome all difficulties. I have desired the Bearer, my Negro Boy Jack, to return to me as speedily as you can dismis Him, as no time must be lost. I shall get some hands at work tomorrow before I set out for your House and wish as little detention as possible, as I am determined to return again on the same evening, having engaged some more hands for Tuesday Morning. I am with best Wishes, Dear Sir, your
Most obdt., Humble Servt.,
ROBT. HOOPS.
Belvidere, Sunday, 8th August, 1791.
The Robert Morris tract, south of the Pequest, comprising 614 acres, was bought in 1825 by Garret D. Wall, who was elected Governor of New Jersey in 1829. He sold the Croxall mansion to
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John M. Sherrerd, Esq., our first county clerk, in 1827, and the rest of the tract he laid out in building lots, as it is at present. The town was boomed, and vacant lots brought extravagant prices, one corner lot bringing $3,600. Mr. Wall gave the sites for the park, Court House and the Methodist and Presbyterian churches.
The first roads in Belvidere all ran from the ford, about one hun- dred feet below the new concrete bridge. One skirted the foot of the hill by the depot and then followed the straight line of Independence Street, past Carhart's farm, to Phillipsburg. Another we recognize as Market Street, and yet another as Water Street, at the western end of which was operated a ferry across the Delaware River. The ferry- man in 1800 was Daniel McCain, who also followed his trade of making nails on the anvil for ten or twelve cents a pound.
The oldest building site in Belvidere is occupied by the Warren House. Here Robert Patterson built his double log house, which lasted until 1838, when it was torn down by Benjamin Depue in order to make way for the more modern structure which is known today as the Warren House. This was slightly remodeled about ten years ago, after a fire. When it was a double log house it was known as the Mansion House, and was conducted as a tavern by William Craig, and later by Joseph Norton. Major Benjamin Depue kept the Warren House for many years, and was succeeded by Vincent Smith, and he by John P. Ribble. At present it is owned by George I. Gardner, and the landlord is William Johnson.
One of the earliest building sites in Belvidere is occupied by the residence of Mr. Henry Deshler. This was built by Dr. George Green in 1830, taking the place of a double log house occupied successively by the Rev. Mr. Treat, pastor of the old Oxford Church; by the Cott- mans, by Major Robert Hoops, who came here in 1769; by Dr. Larra- bee before 1794, and by Dr. Jabez Gwinnup, who practiced here from 1794 until 1817. Mr. Thomas Paul, his son, Dr. J. Marshall Paul, Sr., and grandson, Dr. J. Marshall Paul, Jr., owned this place for many
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years, together with several hundred acres of surrounding property, much of which is still owned by the Paul estate.
A historic dwelling was built at the corner of the park in 1833 by John P. B. Maxwell for his bride, who did not live to enter it. It was later owned by his sister, Mrs. William P. Robeson, the mother of the Hon. George M. Robeson, Secretary of the Navy under Presi- dent Grant. It was regarded as the homestead of the Robeson family, which was so long identified with the history of the State. Martin Van Buren was entertained at this house when a candidate for the presidency, and was driven by Judge Robeson in his carriage drawn by four white horses to Schooley's Mountain. Bishop Doane, the author of several familiar hymns, was a frequent visitor here. One of his hymns begins : "The morning light is breaking, the darkness disappears." The prop- erty was bought by Dr. G. W. Cummins in 1901 ..
Residence of Dr. G. W. Cummins, Belvidere.
Among the very earliest settlers in the neighboring Northampton County were the Craigs, some of whom later came to Warren County. James Craig came with several other Scotch-Irish families to "Craig's Settlement," which was at what is now called Weaversville, Pennsyl-
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vania, and vinicity. In 1743 he purchased 250 acres of land of William Allen. His three sons were named William, Thomas and Robert. William Craig was the first Sheriff of Northampton County. Thomas Craig bought 500 acres of land in 1739. His sons were General Thomas Craig and Captain John Craig. Thomas served in the Revolutionary army as colonel of the Third Pennsylvania Regiment and as brigadier-general. He took part in the battles of Quebec, Brandywine, Germantown and Monmouth. John Craig was captain of the Fourth Regiment Pennsylvania Light Dragoons, and was pro- nounced by General Washington as "the best horseman in the army." He was Sheriff of Northampton County from 1793 to 1796 and spent his last years in Belvidere as proprietor of what is now known as the American House. A fire which partially destroyed the American House in 1906 brought to light some papers of historic interest, among them some militia muster rolls of Northampton County in .1796, and a great number of "Way-bills from Belvidere to Trenton," in which are mentioned by name and destination all those who traveled by stage coach between those points, numbering in all not more than a dozen in a week! The American House was conducted for forty years by Augustus Laubach, and is now owned by Mr. Baylor and conducted by William A. Rasener.
The business activity of Belvidere has always depended in a great measure on the presence of the Delaware River, which offers possibilities of power and communication, and the Pequest Creek, which furnishes power to run nearly all of Belvidere's industries. With respect to the possible development of water, Belvidere is the second city in the State, and before long it hopes to utilize all of its possibilities in this direction.
For many years Belvidere was the shipping point to Philadelphia and Trenton for Oxford Furnace, which began to ship iron down the river as early as 1744. The iron was carried on the famous Durham boats. These were flat-bottomed affairs with a prow at either end.
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They floated with their load down stream, and were poled all the way back, lightly loaded, largely with sugar and molasses.
A disastrous effort was made by Belvidere interests in 1860 to run a line of steamers on the river, but when the first steamer, the "Alfred Thomas," on its maiden trip blew up after travelling less than one mile from Easton, where it was built, the project was dropped, never to be renewed. The explosion killed twelve persons, among them two of the three owners,-Judge William R. Sharp and Richard Hol- comb.
The only real use ever made of the magnificent water power of the Delaware was to run a mill built a mile south of. Belvidere in 1814 by William Sherlock, and rebuilt by Sherrerd & Company in 1836. The mill was finally destroyed by fire in 1856.
The Pequest has proved more useful, as it has furnished power without stint for 140 years, and has really made the town all that it is. The site of Ira B. Keener's mill at the south end of the lower bridge is the oldest in this vicinity, a mill having been there ever since Major Hoops erected his first log mill in 1770. He also built a saw mill at the north end of the bridge, whose site has been occupied by a variety of industries, and finally by the Warren Wood Working Company, which conducts the most important industry in Belvidere. This com- pany furnishes electric light to the borough, and at one time heated many dwellings by its exhaust steam.
McMurtrie's saw mill, conducted by Gardner & Company, is the third one to occupy that site, and gets its power from the lower dam, which also supplies power for the Belvidere Roller Mill Company's plant, erected by A. B. Searles in 1863 on the site of a saw mill built by Major Depue in 1839.
Several industries receive their power from water diverted from the Pequest a half mile east of Belvidere, and conducted to "McMur- trie's Mill Pond" by a race built in 1836 by the Belvidere Water Com- pany, and later owned by the Belvidere Manufacturing Company. The
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excellent head of water thus obtained operates the flouring mill built in 1877 by Abram McMurtrie, and conducted at present under the firm name of G. K. & O. H. McMurtrie. For many years Belvidere has been the chief market for grain for many miles around, due to its pros- perous mills and excellent shipping facilities.
The Crane Felt Company's works, situated on both sides of the Pequest, also receive their power from this source, as does the silk mill of Bamford- Brothers, which was established before 1900 in the brick building erected in 1870 and known as the Agricultural Works. In this building a paper pail factory was successfully conducted for several years in the nineties.
A flourishing industry established in recent years is J. Frank Haye's welting factory. A garage is owned by Roseberry Brothers, and another by Frank Bair, who also conducts a moving picture estab- lishment.
Belvidere has connection with the Pennsylvania Railroad, the Le- high & Hudson railroad, and by auto-stage with the Delaware, Lacka- wanna & Western railroad, giving unequalled traveling facilities, and it is planning to build a trolley line connecting with the county system at Washington.
Two wagon bridges cross the Pequest at Belvidere. The lower bridge, built of concrete and iron in 1910, replaced an iron bridge that had done service for fifty-two years. A stone arch bridge which stood here from 1838 till 1858 followed a succession of wooden bridges, whose erection rendered useless the ford a hundred feet down stream, which was used in early times. The upper or iron bridge was erected in 1870, replacing a wooden frame bridge that had served for many years. The present Delaware River bridge was built in 1904 by the Delaware Bridge Company, after the great flood of October, 1903, had washed away all but the foundations of the old wooden arch bridge which was built in 1834-36, after the pattern of the present bridge at Columbia. Before 1836 a ferry was operated just below the bridge.
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The Town Hall on Water Street was built in 1855. The Good Will Volunteer Fire Company keeps its hose carriage and hook and ladder wagon in the building, and has a fine billiard room for the enter- tainment of its members. The Mayor and Common Council meet once a month in a special room, and all elections are held in the building.
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