Learn about the city’s largest fires in this 61-page document (18MB, PDF), created in April 2017 as a learning aid for staff and visitors at the fire museum.
Contents
- Conflagrations
- Major Fires, 1830s to 1900s
- Comparing Fires
- Tompkins Hall, 1914
- Martin Street, 1915
- Yarborough House, 1928
- City Auditorium, 1930
- Bellas-Hess Clothing Store, 1943
- Edenton Street Methodist Church, 1956
- Cameron Village, 1964
- Peebles Hotel, 1970
- Mangel Building, 1981
- IGA Grocery, 1992
- Pine Knoll Townes, 2007
- The Metropolitan, 2017
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This page was last updated April 17, 2017
