The fire company that would become Engine 9 actually began life in Craddock Va, the country’s first planned community, as the Craddock Volunteer Fire Department.
Craddock was in Norfolk County, but was annexed along with a sizable hunk of Norfolk County by Portsmouth in 1958. The volunteers at Craddock moved a couple of miles South to Brentwood and built a new station on Shelbrook Dr, right at Old Manor Drive, becoming the Brentwood Volunteer Fire Department.
This station, with numerous additions,still exists, and is still used by the Chesapeake Fire Department training division. Old Station 9 was tucked away in a subdivision and difficult to find if you didn’t know where it was. In fact if Engine 9’s Captain hadn’t aimed me towards the old house, I would’ve never found it found it.
Craddock was in Norfolk County, but was annexed along with a sizable hunk of Norfolk County by Portsmouth in 1958. The volunteers at Craddock moved a couple of miles South to Brentwood and built a new station on Shelbrook Dr, right at Old Manor Drive, becoming the Brentwood Volunteer Fire Department.
This station, with numerous additions,still exists, and is still used by the Chesapeake Fire Department training division. Old Station 9 was tucked away in a subdivision and difficult to find if you didn’t know where it was. In fact if Engine 9’s Captain hadn’t aimed me towards the old house, I would’ve never found it found it.
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If God's not a Hokie, Then why do the leaves turn Maroon and Orange in the Fall?
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