THE LITTLE VILLAGE THAT COULD 

1952—FIREMEN’S ASSOCIATION STATE OF NEW YORK ANNUAL CONVENTION 

By Anita M. Mance, Historian, Research assisted by Seth Wagner, SUNY Geneseo Intern  

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Originally the equipment used in firefighting was a hand drawn hose cart and ladder wagon. In 1925 it was decided that the village needed a real fire truck not a commercial truck converted to one.

East Rochester was originally called Despatch because of its proximity to the railroad. The word came from the name of the first major company to locate here, the Merchants Despatch Transportation Company, most often referred to as the Carshops. ...