Hose No. 2 is a former fire station in the Lower Falls area of Yarmouth, Maine, United States. Built around 1889, seven years before the town's first fire hydrants were installed,Images of America: Yarmouth, Alan M. Hall (Arcadia, 2002), p.13 it stands in a wedge-shaped plot of land separating Main Street and Marina Road at what was formerly known as Staples Hill.Architectural Survey Yarmouth, ME (Phase One, September, 2018 - Yarmouth's town website) By 1901, the town had "two hose companies of fifteen men each" and a hook and ladder company of ten men. A system of fire alarms, consisting of eight boxes, were in the process of being installed.
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Historical buildings and structures of Yarmouth, Maine
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