# @mdhistory on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CUIw9SsM5nG
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/19780584-mdhistory-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/thumbnails/8476bcd364.jpg
- **Posted:** 2021-09-22T20:15:08.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Maryland Center for History and Culture (MCHC) (@mdhistory) — https://gondola.cc/mdhistory

## Caption

#OnThisDay September 22, 1763 the first volunteer fire company formed in Baltimore. They were soon joined by other fire companies that developed a reputation in Baltimore for doing a lot more than fighting fires. 

Read an article by Amy Sophia Greenberg – published in the Summer 1995 issue of the "Maryland Historical Magazine – about why Baltimore’s fire companies were compared to Ireland’s famous Kilkenny Cats. Click on the "Maryland Historical Magazine Article" tab in our bio link.

Image: Baltimore Firehouse at Lafayette Avenue and Stricker Street, photograph by E.E. Staum, c.1900. Maryland Center for History and Culture, H. Furlong Baldwin Library, Subject Vertical File-Fires and Explosions-Firehouses

#BaltimoreHistory #Baltimore #MarylandHistory #MDHistory #Maryland #MarylandHistoricalMagazine #KilkennyCats #OTD #ThisDayInHistory #BaltimoreFire #VintagePhotos #VintagePhotographs

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vintagephotographs, maryland, baltimorefire, vintagephotos, mdhistory, marylandhistory, marylandhistoricalmagazine, onthisday, kilkennycats, thisdayinhistory, baltimore, otd, baltimorehistory

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