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Conditions Governing Access

The collection is open for research use.

Preferred Citation

Rockbridge Historical Society files on Lexington Fire Department, RHS Coll. 0047, Special Collections and Archives, James G. Leyburn Library, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA

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Scope and Contents

This file contains: a newspaper clipping about Lexington's fire department in 1829; a list of the first group of Lexington firefighters from 1797; and a souvenir booklet of the Forty-third Annual Convention and Tournament of the Virginia State Firemen's Association.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Fire extinction
• Lexington Fire Department (Lexington, Va.)
• Virginia -- Lexington
• Virginia State Firemen's Association