General Warren Emergency Company #2

During 1884, an application was received by the Village Board to supply Haverstraw with water, and shortly thereafter construction started on a pressurized water system. By 1885, it was recommended to the Board of Engineers that fire hydrants be placed throughout the Village to improve fire protection. This work was to commence the next spring, and [...]

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Almost 14 years ago, there was a Mass Casualty drill on the Bowline Property. General Warren participated, and here are the video’s. Thanks to Joey
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Found recently were Newspaper clippings Smokey had on the Haverstraw Fire Department, General Warren, and the Village. Again, these are Messenger clippings that he typed out and had filed.
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Part of our ongoing preservation effort, we have more interesting information on the Haverstraw Fire Department. Haverstraw Ex-Chief Smokey Fales (1933-34), who  was also Village Clerk, had gone through the Village Minutes and clipped any mentions of the Haverstraw Fire Department. What follows is basically the early history of the department as seen through the [...]

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On February 14, 1859 the New York State Legislature passed an act which provided for, and regulated the election of a Chief and two Assistant Chiefs of the Fire Department of the Village of Warren, now Haverstraw, New York. The first convention held under this Act was on May 8 1859 in the United States Hotel , [...]

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General Joseph Warren was born in Roxbury Massachusetts on June 11, 1741 and graduated Harvard University in 1759. Joseph Warren was a physician and an able orator, and he became a member of the Boston Committee of Correspondence in 1772. Joseph Warren was a true revolutionary, constantly speaking of independence from Great Britain, and was [...]

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