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The Last Station Building Campaign
Dexter Volunteer Fire Department, Inc. & Dexter Historical Society Kickoff Sunday June 13, 2021, 12:30pm, at the Historical Society, 105 East Kirby Street |
Carolyn (Corky) Marlowe
President Dexter Historical Society P.O. Box 231, Dexter, N.Y. 13634 Cell 315-771-8304 Email church314@twc.com Gerald (Gerry) A. Kostyk Dexter Volunteer Fire Dept., Inc. P.O. Box 145, Dexter, NY, 13634 Cell 315-405-3412 Email gkostyk@twcny.rr.com |
Ringing in The Past to Preserve It for The Future
The Dexter Historical Society in collaboration with the Dexter Volunteer Fire Department, Inc. is hosting an event to dedicate the bell that once rang from the steeple of the former First Universalist Church Steeple and to Kickoff the fire department’s Last Station Building Campaign. The event is going to be held at the Dexter Historical Society located at 105 East Kirby Street, in Dexter, on June 13, 2021. The event will begin at 12:30 PM. The bell, cast by the Jones & Company Troy Bell Foundry in 1872, was removed from the steeple of the church in 2019 and was mounted on a concrete pedestal on the historical society’s grounds in 2020. Due to the pandemic the society was unable to host a dedication for the bell. Also developed, by the fire department starting in 2019, was the idea to construct a new building on the historical society’s property to house the fire department’s 1929 Brockway and 1865 Rumsey Hand Pumper. The new building will also provide the historical society with much needed storage space. The existing historical society building will be connected with the new building with a lift to provide enclosed handicapped accessibility. Much needed site improvements for the historical society will also be included in the building campaign. Food and building campaign items will be available to purchase. Proceeds will go to the Last Station Building Campaign. Please join us to help us dedicate the bell, an important piece of our area’s history, and to promote the Last Station Building Campaign, a place to preserve that history into the future.
Thank you, Corky and Gerry
The Dexter Historical Society in collaboration with the Dexter Volunteer Fire Department, Inc. is hosting an event to dedicate the bell that once rang from the steeple of the former First Universalist Church Steeple and to Kickoff the fire department’s Last Station Building Campaign. The event is going to be held at the Dexter Historical Society located at 105 East Kirby Street, in Dexter, on June 13, 2021. The event will begin at 12:30 PM. The bell, cast by the Jones & Company Troy Bell Foundry in 1872, was removed from the steeple of the church in 2019 and was mounted on a concrete pedestal on the historical society’s grounds in 2020. Due to the pandemic the society was unable to host a dedication for the bell. Also developed, by the fire department starting in 2019, was the idea to construct a new building on the historical society’s property to house the fire department’s 1929 Brockway and 1865 Rumsey Hand Pumper. The new building will also provide the historical society with much needed storage space. The existing historical society building will be connected with the new building with a lift to provide enclosed handicapped accessibility. Much needed site improvements for the historical society will also be included in the building campaign. Food and building campaign items will be available to purchase. Proceeds will go to the Last Station Building Campaign. Please join us to help us dedicate the bell, an important piece of our area’s history, and to promote the Last Station Building Campaign, a place to preserve that history into the future.
Thank you, Corky and Gerry
