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On July 18, 1870 the town council purchased a third class Silsby Steamer, from the Silsby Manufacturing Company of Seneca Falls, New York. 

A model 9600, it had a pump rated at 600 GPM and was pulled by horses.

Steamer was retired in 1929 to private industry and is believed to have been dismantled and scraped

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