Chincoteague Volunteer Fire Company, 5175 Chicken City Road, Chincoteague Island, Virginia. Accomack County Station 3. Organized in May of 1924, their original firehouse was built on Main Street in 1930 and was added to in 1957. In 2017 some of the larger apparatus was moved into the Cropper Street Station. The ground for the new station was purchased in 2011, ground was broken in April 2017 and opened May 1, 2019. The Company maintain a herd of wild ponies that reside on Assateague Island and every July the Saltwater Cowboys round them up and pony drive them across the channel to Chincoteague Island and auction off the excess ponies (only 150 are permitted to graze over on Assateague).
No comments:
Post a Comment