1874-1889 133 Market Street side of Congress Street Engine House (Casco 5)

1889-1895 380 Congress Street, corner of Market St. (two-front bays added)

1895-1899 99 India Street (former quarters of Steam Engine 4, then Ladder 1) 

1899-1929   134 Congress Street, Munjoy Hill, with E-2 as “Double Company”

1835-1874 “City Ladder Carriage No. 2” (spare carriage with no company)

1874-1889 “Eagle” Hook and Ladder Co. No. 2

1889-1899    Ladder Company No. 2                                                

1899-1929 Ladder 2 (part of Engine Co. 2, as a “double company”)

1874 – A second ladder company organized after years of recommendations to city leaders.  There had been a spare Ladder 2 carriage since 1835, but with no company.  The new Ladder Company was named “Eagle” Hook & Ladder Co. No. 2, and assigned old L-1, an 1867 Remington & Moulton one-horse ladder carriage, with the only PFD owned horse.  Ladder 2 was located in the 1867-Firehouse of “Casco Steam Engine-5” on Congress Street, on the Market Street side of the building, formerly used by L-1.  

Company members voted November 2nd to have a sign built for their quarters, and on December 14th, they received a wood-carved Eagle with hooks & ladders by fireman/wood carver Nahum Littlefield.

1884 – A Permanent PFD Driver was appointed, and occupied rooms on the second floor.

1885 – Ladder 2 was rebuilt by Talbot & Moulton Co. of Portland and made practically into a new truck with 325 feet of new ladders.  The truck returned to the Market Street quarters November 11th.

1889 – A two-bay annex was added to the left-front side of the now called “Central Fire Station”, and Ladder 2 was reassigned L-1’s 1887 LaFrance ladder tiller truck with a Hayes 85-foot, two-sectioned wooden aerial ladder.  Ladder 2’s Talbot & Moulton truck was transferred to L-1 on India Street.

May 6, 1895 – Ladder Co. 2 relocated to the 1869 India Street firehouse.  A third horse was added, as L-1 went back to Central Fire Station where it had been from 1867 to 1874.

November 1, 1899 – Ladder Co. 2 was renumbered as Ladder 5, forming a new Ladder Company.

November 14, 1899 – A new ladder & chemical combination truck was placed in commission on Munjoy Hill, numbered as Ladder 2, and was now a part of Engine Co. 2, as a “double company”.

A Permanent Captain, Lieutenant, and L-2 Driver were appointed to the three-piece Company.

January 9, 1917 – Chief Butler had Combination 2 staying in quarters on a General Alarm, but was to respond to all other alarms in District 1 (Peninsula) until the recall was sounded or otherwise ordered.  

May 11, 1929 – Ladder 2 was decommissioned, retiring Ladder 2’s fire horses “Bob & Dick”, who were two of the last six fire horses in the Fire Department.