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Members of the Mill Valley Fire Department in the early 1900s outside the former Town Hall which was built in 1905. From left to right on the bottom row: William Ross, Jean Beddecarrax, Tom Bagshaw, Fred Whier. Fred Roemer stands between Beddecarrax and Bagshaw. Child and man at upper left are unidentified. Pat Patterson is at the upper right. Seated are Dick Lenhardt and Frank Sherman. Each month the livery stables alternated to furnish a team for the Fire Department (Dowd's Fashion Stables owned by Charles James Dowd at 157 Throckmorton, Redwood Stables owned by Thomas Deffenbach on Throckmorton and Cascades Stable owned by Charles White on Miller Ave.) Later this system changed: if the fire bell rang, whoever was nearest to the fire house hitched his horses to the fire wagon and then he received $10 for the use of his horses. In 1909 the town purchased the Fire Department's own team of horses.
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