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Description
This bell, now on display at the Elk Grove Fire Station, for several decades carried the message to the citizens of the community that there was a fire and the help was needed. It was built in 1898 by W. T. Garett & Co. San Francisco, and was brought to Elk Grove a few months later and hung in a tower near the railroad depot. Later a new tower and room for a hose cart was built behind the Odd Fellows Hall. Later a siren took its polace, then it was rang only occasionally to make sure it still worked. The bell was so stong in tone that it would wake a person from a dead sleep a mile or better from its tower.
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