This time it is the Linglestown Fire Department, located in the village of Linglestown, Lower Paxton Township, Dauphin County, PA. and running their famous white and blue apparatus as Dauphin County Co. 35. The Fire Department in Linglestown started several times and as early as the 1850's. And in 1935 with the purchase of some motorized apparatus they were finally on their way. In 1937 they bought the old Linglestown High School building for $775 and added on to in 1955 and 1969. In 1991 they built the big blue barn just west of the old station along Route 39. The old building now serves as a rental hall, the "St. Thomas Room", and a place for their weekly bingos.
Useless trivia, the village was laid out in 1765 by Thomas Lingle who called it St. Thomas. After his death everyone refered to it as Lingle's Town. I don't need to tell you which name stuck.
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