1806

TIMELINE:

   October 14, 1806:   A Hunneman & Co. Hand pump Engine, Neptune, serial #13 was delivered,

                                    Built in Roxbury, MA.

                                    A small wooden house was built on Back Street, at the head of Chapel Street,

                                    Which was only large enough to house the new engine.  

April 1, 1811 – Town Meeting, voted; “That the placing of Engine Houses be

                                    Committed to the Fire Wards, to fix them in such places as they may judge 

    Best for the Interest of the Town.”        (Portland records book, volume 1, page 508)

   Circa 1822:         The Neptune Engine Company was relocated a half a mile up the street to a

                                    Town-owned engine house on Maine (Congress) Street, opposite the head of

                                    New High Street, on land of James Deering, who rented the land to the Town.

                                    The relocation may have been caused by a conflagration on June 15, 1822 on

                                    Green Street (Forest Avenue), which destroyed twenty-one buildings with a loss

                                               estimated between 20,000 to 30,000 dollars.