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Fires in the Neighborhood

fire carworks 7.16.60 public ledger.jpg
1860: site of Dalian
fire clayton 2.21.1884 engine 18.jpg
1884: fatal injuries to fireman James Clayton of our Spring Garden Engine #18
fire ryder death 1895.jpg
1895: death of fireman John F. Ryder of our Spring Garden #18
Lips brewery fire 1862 2.7.1862 Inky.jpg
1862: fire at Lips' Brewery at 17th and Buttonwood Streets
From 2/7/1862 Inquirer
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1864: 23rd and Hamilton Streets
From the 4/24/1864 Inquirer
fire blw 8.5.1884 the phila times.jpg
1884: fire at BLW
From the 8/5/1884 Philadelphia Times
1907 blw fire Reporter-Times indiana pa
1907: fire at BLW
From the Indiana Reporter-Times
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1909: fireman Joseph Toner of our Spring Garden #18 killed in fire at 1516-22 Callowhill Street
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21st and Pennsylvania Avenue October 18, 1870
From the Inquirer
fire vetterlein mill 8.8.1870 evening telegraph.jpg
22nd and Wood Street, August 8, 1870
From the Philadelphia Evening Telegraph
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granary fire 1924 p1.jpg
1924: Granary burns to ground
fire 420 n 20th 9.20.1969 inkyS.jpg
granary fire 3.11.1924 inky p 2.jpg
1969: Hancock-Gross warehouse at 420 North 20th Street
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1986: fire at the Highway Tabernacle Assembly at 18th and Spring Garden Streets, northwest corner
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Gruesome fatality at Norris Locomotive Works due to a boiler explosion on March 16, 1863; from the Philadelphia Inquirer on March 18, 1863.
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