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Union Street Fire Station, 1927The volunteer fire company that served Windsor center was formed in 1830 by twenty men who each subscribed five dollars. Their early apparatus and a storage building were destroyed by a disastrous fire in 1869 that burned more than a dozen large buildings in the center of town. The group then acquired a small pumping engine which the firefighters dragged to fires themselves and worked by hand. At the end of the 19th century the group was reorganized and revitalized. They purchased a horse-drawn 70-gallon chemical fire engine in 1902, took receipt of a motor-driven truck in 1918. And in 1926 they bought a new Seagrave 750 gallon-per-minute pumper. The new apparatus did not fit in the old building near Maple Avenue, so this new brick building on Union Street was built in 1927. It served as the Windsor Fire Company’s headquarters until they moved in 1964 to the Public Safety Complex on Bloomfield Avenue, a location that provides quick access to all parts of town.
The Union Street Tavern restaurant opened in 2006. On their first anniversary in 2007 the owners initiated the Tavern Trot, a 3.5 mile race which raises thousands of dollars for charity every year. Copyright 2015 Windsor Historical Society.
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Old Poquonock Burying Ground Poquonock Bridge Union Street Fire Station, 1927 Washington Lodge #70, 1902 Tunxis Theater, 1922 Hayden-Thompson Building, ca. 1850 Windsor Train Station, 1869-1870 Mason Building, 1908 Freight House, ca. 1870 World War II Memorial, ca. 1950 Tobacco Reliefs, 1943 U.S. Post Office, 1963 World War I Memorial, 1920 & 1957 Mullaley Building, ca. 1875 Col. James Loomis House, 1822 Murphy Building, ca. 1875 Old Post Office Building, ca. 1885 John E. Luddy House, 1921 Amy Archer-Gilligan House, ca. 1880 Loomis Fountain, 1903 Windsor Federal Building, 1956 Mack Brick Plaque, 1830 Roger Ludlow Plaque, 1914 Windsor Town Hall, 1965-1967 Windsor Trust Building, 1929 Veterans of Foreign Wars Building, 1941 Huntington House, 1902 Plaza Building, 1929 Rev. Reuel Hotchkiss Tuttle House, 1865 To the Patriots of Windsor, 1929 Grace Episcopal Church, 1865 Col. Oliver Mather House at the Windsor Public Library, 1777 Bart's Restaurant, 1946 Farmington River Railroad Bridge, 1867 Palisado Cemetery, 1633 St. Gabriel Church, 1916 First Church in Windsor Meetinghouse, 1794 Strong-Howard House, 1757-1830 Windsor Grist and Saw Mill, ca 1862 Rev. William Russell House, 1755 Warham Mill Marker, 1933 John Mason Statue, 1889 & 1996 Horace Hayden Memorial, 1910 Dr. Hezekiah Chaffee House, ca. 1767 Founders of Windsor Monument, 1930 Pierson House, 1807 Deerfield World War II Honor Roll Windsor/Deerfield Garden Apartments Mills House Capt. Thomas Allyn House Stanadyne Samuel and Elijah Mills House Taylor and Fenn The Elijah Barber House Wilson Fire House Keney Park Poquonock Fire Company St. Casimir's Lithuanian Society Elm Grove Chapel, 1894 and Cemetery Roger Ludlow School Riverside Cemetery John Fitch High School Washington Park Stony Hill School Joseph Rainey House William Best House Archer Memorial A.M.E. Zion Church Drastic Park Dinosaur Sculptures Windsor Historical Society
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