Click thumbnails (below) to see the NFD Chemical
Company No. 7 located on Old Ocean View Road, and details of their
splendiferous (circa 1913)  REO Speedwagon! REO refers to Ransom
Eli Olds the founder of REO Motor Car Company, which would eventually
"morph" into the Oldsmobile
Corporation.
Today, Old OV Road still winds from Little
Creek --starting at the stoplight near K-Mart to where Hammett Avenue
(in Lenox) meets Tidewater Drive. The K-Mart site/surrounding area
(Harvey
Lindsay property) was recently purchased by Wal-Mart --includes
tentative plans for our Police Operations & the Multiservice Center (once, Atlantic
Mills) to move to Wards Corner) --we suspect
into another Lindsay property --which was once People's Drug Store.
Our current area station houses:
Station 9 at 115 Thole Street, est. 1951
Station 12 at 1650 West Little Creek Road, 1924
Station 13 at 176 Maple Avenue, 1963
Station 15 at 1425 Fisherman's Road, 1963
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Norfolk was founded in 1682, incorporated as a borough in 1736, chartered as
a city in 1845 (revised in 1882 & 1884). There was a new charter in
1906 (amended in 1908), for a mayor, a council, board of aldermen; and a
board of control in charge of public works, streets, sewers, drains & water supply,
the police & fire departments.
Fire protection predates the Revolutionary War. In 1730, an act
was passed stating that wooden chimneys were prohibited --whoa! In 1788, the
first organized fire company was established and then headquartered on Main Street.
In 1921, the last horse-drawn units were taken out of service.
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