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Now owned by Waters Memorial AME Church, Rev. Stephanie Atkins hopes the old firehouse can once again bring the community together.
Volunteer firefighters represented a potent swirl of masculinity, self-sacrifice, and republican virtue. But Philadelphia had no Black companies.
Two objects, a valued heirloom and a forgotten metal pin, tell very different stories of African American communities and their connections to firefighting in the 1800s, one in the North and the other in the South.