Celebrating Our Communities Fire Companies

Celebrating Our Communities Fire Companies

Mechanicsburg Museum Association

The Mechanicsburg Museum Association can be found


Get ready for your trip to the museum. Be sure to visit these pages before your visit		Company History Historical Apparatus Historical Incidents

Review some of the items currently on display at the Mechanicsburg Museum Click on image to view full size version

The Mechanicsburg Museum has put together a one of a kind display highlighting the long, rich history of the fire service in the Borough of Mechanicsburg.

The display is slated to run through June 30, 2007 and features photos, equipment, artifacts, and archival documents from the Washington Fire Company #1, Citizens Fire and Rescue Company #2 and the Rescue Hook and Ladder Company #1 which is no longer in operation.

This event is one of the largest held by the museum and completely fills the MMA's newly restored freight station museum complex.

Many items reflect a time ruled by horses, steam, and a strong civic responsibility towards protecting the community. While the bulk of the displays carry a historic theme a few modern firefighting items have been included as examples of firefighting then and now.

You may never again have an opportunity such as this to educate yourself and family members in the extensive history of the two organizations which protect you and your property against fire to this very day. There are literally hundreds of items on loan from the participating fire companies as well as from private collections.

View photos and actual components of the very first hand operated fire engine ever used in the protection of Mechanicsburg.
Learn about the era of steam in which horse drawn steamers rumbled down Main Street responding to a turn of the century emergency.
Included are several historic photo collections covering some of the largest fires to hit our home town.

With a collection as detailed as this you are bound to enjoy your visit and become fascinated with this portion of the communities history.

This collection will be on display through June 30, 2007. The facility is open to the public Tuesday - Saturday 12:00 noon to 3:00 p.m. Private viewing can be arranged