The Susquehanna Hose Company was first organized in 1902 with 33 charter members and this was their first fire house. Alonzo R. Walker (1859-1942) was a charter member and served as the first Fire Chief of Division 1 in this building.

The City bought their first horse-drawn hose cart from the Burns Carriage Factory on Green Street in 1905. Between 1910 and 1920 they had the first gasoline motorized truck delivered and the company was officially incorporated 1922. In 1925 the Susquehanna Hose Company bought land from the PW&B Railroad on which to build their first firehouse. This grey building was the original No.1 Division for Havre de Grace and is shown on the 1930 Sanborn Insurance Map. A modern American-LaFrance “quad” truck was delivered in 1939 and carried ladders sufficient to reach the highest building in the area.

During the active days of the fire house, kids had a ball field between the building and the railroad tracks. A home run was up the bank of the railroad track and Cathie Bumba remembers that boys and girls played together on the teams. Sally Lieske Daigle, however, remembers how much fun that hill was in the snow when they would all go sledding down the bank.

No longer used as a firehouse, this building is now owned by Fender Enterprises LLC.

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Built 1925. 1080 sq ft, 1 story, lot 3920 sq ft.