The Camp Curtin Fire Station is a historic

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located at

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and named for the Civil War camp of the same name. It was added to the

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in 1981, and was decommissioned the year prior because it was no longer large enough to accommodate standard fire trucks.Medical marijuana dispensary set to open in former Camp Curtin fire station
" Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: CBS-21 News, June 10, 2019.

History

In 1908, after an initial two-year dormancy over funding, the Camp Curtin Fire Company No. 13 was formally activated and $2,000 were allocated by

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for the purchase of the lot on the corner of Sixth and Ross Streets for a one-story frame building. This was quickly outgrown, and two-story, twin-bay Camp Curtin Fire Station was built in 1910. The rectangular brick building measures and exhibits

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style design elements. It features a square wooden bell tower at the center of the front façade. The tower has a hipped, shingled roof and four stilted segmental arches. ''Note:'' This includes In 1915, residents of Harrisburg's tenth ward petitioned city leaders to fund the purchase of modern fire equipment, including a new chemical engine, citing the lack of sufficient fire protection in their ward and outdated equipment in use at the time by the Camp Curtin Fire Company.Tenth Warders Insist on More Fire Protection: One Thousand of the 1,421 Sign Protest Filed with Commission To-Day: Have Only One Ancient Machine
" Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: ''The Star-Independent'', March 16, 1915, p. 1. The station was decommissioned in March 1980, with all apparatus being relocated to the Bureau's Station One. This building was added to the

in August 1981. In 2019, the Historic Harrisburg Association announced that a medical marijuana dispensary would open in the building, and that the owners planned "to preserve much of the historic building's character and charm." It had previously housed a restaurant serving barbecue.

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