Wide Awake Fire Company

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The Wide Awake Fire Company, a volunteer unit in Americus, poses in front of its engine house in 1890. A steam fire engine is visible behind the men (center).

Courtesy of Georgia Archives, Vanishing Georgia, # sum093.

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