The Hose Cart House
The
Fire Hose Cart House, located at 8 Gardner Street, is the last remaining nineteenth
century firehouse on island. This structure, dating from 1886, and several like
it were built after The Great Fire of 1846, which caused town fathers to implement
better fire prevention measures. The firehouses were used to store hand-pumped
fire-fighting apparatus. Acquired by the NHA in 1960, the Gardner Street Fire
Hose Cart House displays some of the rare fire-fighting equipment related to the
historic 1846 fire.
