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Vigilant Fire Company Firemen's Monument

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Area
  
less than one acre

Built by
  
Scheirer, Frank A.

Opened
  
1909

Built
  
1909

NRHP Reference #
  
04000838

Added to NRHP
  
11 August 2004

Vigilant Fire Company Firemen's Monument

Location
  
Union Cemetery W side of PA 873, approx. 1/3 mil S of Slatington, Washington Township, Pennsylvania

Vigilant Fire Company Firemen's Monument is a historic monument located at Washington Township, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania. It was erected in 1909, and is a 16-foot-high granite monument on a concrete base. It incorporates a 7-foot-tall statue of an early 20th-century fireman with a handlebar mustache, pointed fire hat, fire coat and boots, and holding a young girl in both arms. The plot includes three burials.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.

References

Vigilant Fire Company Firemen's Monument Wikipedia