# @sachistorymuseum on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DaGTql1haYE
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/67178707-sachistorymuseum-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2026-06-27T17:58:20.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Sacramento History Museum (@sachistorymuseum) — https://gondola.cc/sachistorymuseum

## Caption

On June 27, 1853, the Sacramento Company No. 3 acquired a firehouse on the west side of Second Street between K and L Streets. The company was originally organized on March 27, 1851 but it took over 2 years for the city’s Common Council and Fire Department to establish a building for the volunteer firefighters. They were nicknamed “The Tigers” and their motto was “First in danger and always ready.” 

In 1859, the company had 65 members. In 1872, a paid fire department was established in Sacramento and the volunteer departments were superseded. The new Engine Company No. 1 was organized in this firehouse and the building continued to serve as a firehouse until the early 1920s. The structure later served as a warehouse for the Finegold & Company wholesale business. 

In 1959, the building was purchased by Newton Cope and in 1960 he opened a restaurant at the location. It became the first building to be restored in the Old Sacramento Historic District and is the home today for firehouseoldsac. 

Copy of a lithograph of Sacramento No. 3 from the Bird’s Eye View of Sacramento in 1857 by George H. Baker, courtesy of the California State Library.

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