Download or read book The Lost History of the Leesburg Volunteer Fire Company 1803 - 1925 written by James Fazekas and published by . This book was released on 2014-11-01 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Leesburg Volunteers serve the Town of Leesburg and Loudoun County, Virginia. In 2012, it was discovered that the Leesburg Volunteer Fire Company was formed in 1803, not 1863, and is one of the seventy five or so oldest fire companies in America. This book chronicles the progression of the Fire Company and the Town, as well as the fire service in Loudoun, from 1757 until 1925. Using first-hand accounts and historic documents you will follow along from the first bucket brigade to present day fire companies. Over two hundred fires; many of them devastating and deadly, are documented and indexed. Discover the real origin of the Leesburg Star Fire Company and why the fire apparatus were once stored under the stage in the Opera House. Meet the fireman that commissioned Robert E. Lee and learn how the entire Company was almost wiped out by an explosion. This detailed history also includes stories from around the County such as the lynching of an accused arsonist and murderer, a town that was nearly destroyed by dynamite and many other little known events.