{"id":82,"date":"2020-06-23T15:20:34","date_gmt":"2020-06-23T19:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wpselected.com\/rimbaud\/?p=82"},"modified":"2020-08-13T15:27:45","modified_gmt":"2020-08-13T19:27:45","slug":"quequechan-engine-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fallriverhistorical.org\/TinyTuesdays\/2020\/06\/23\/quequechan-engine-company\/","title":{"rendered":"Quequechan Engine Company Badge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Sound the alarm, it&#8217;s Tiny Tuesday!<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">This stunningly detailed, silver badge was created for the 1st Director of the Quequechan Engine Company of Fall River. The badge is hand engraved with the firefighter&#8217;s rank, name, and company, as well as a design of a 19th century steam engine. This piece belonged to Lot Thatcher Sears (1834-1911), who was listed as the Company&#8217;s Acting Foreman in 1872. Sears was a carpenter in Fall River and later a proprietor of a variety store. He would later be elected as 2nd Vice President for the Veteran Firemen&#8217;s Association in 1896.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Fall River&#8217;s first steam engine was purchased in 1859, known as Quequechan No. 1. It was manufactured by the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company of Manchester, NH. Weighing an impressive 7,700 lbs, the piece featured a &#8220;first class rotary engine.&#8221; The first use of Quequechan No. 1 was on March 9, 1859, during which the engine doused a fire on Central Street. Though the engine had been in use since late winter, the Quequechan Engine Company would not be officially assembled until December 1859!<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">This artifact was recently acquired by the FRHS and joins our collection pertaining to the firefighting history of the city.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ut wisi enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exerci tation ullamcorper suscipit lobortis nisl ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis autem vel eum iriure dolor in hendrerit in vulputate velit esse molestie consequat, vel illum dolore eu feugiat nulla facilisis at vero eros et accumsan et iusto odio dignissim qui blandit praesented.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":689,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,4],"tags":[5,38,39,13,16,17],"class_list":["post-82","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fire-or-police","category-vintage","tag-animals","tag-fire-department","tag-fireman-badge","tag-likes","tag-photo","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallriverhistorical.org\/TinyTuesdays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallriverhistorical.org\/TinyTuesdays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallriverhistorical.org\/TinyTuesdays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallriverhistorical.org\/TinyTuesdays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallriverhistorical.org\/TinyTuesdays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/fallriverhistorical.org\/TinyTuesdays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":845,"href":"https:\/\/fallriverhistorical.org\/TinyTuesdays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions\/845"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallriverhistorical.org\/TinyTuesdays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallriverhistorical.org\/TinyTuesdays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallriverhistorical.org\/TinyTuesdays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallriverhistorical.org\/TinyTuesdays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}