197 Main St., Torrent Engine House 1876
Previous
location between 201 and 203 Main Street.
07-19-1856 Norfolk County Deed: 250:105
Lyman
P. Pond to Christopher Slocumb et al.
“Whereas certain individuals in the westerly part of Medway have associated
together to purchase a fire engine house for the accommodation of a fire engine called the Torrent belonging to the Town of
Medway…two stories high, twenty eight feet long and sixteen feet wide, standing near my dwelling house and adjoining
my shop… to pass and repass direct from the highway…shall have the privilege of removing said building from the
premises if they elect to do so in 30 days from the time they cease to occupy it as a fire engine house”
Medway Annual Report for the year ending 1868:
Expenditures:
$30. yearly paid to AMB Fuller for lease of land for Torrent No. 1 Engine House.
Medway Annual Report for year ending 1869:
Buildings erected:
…”Rapid” engine house by Town and subscription - From
Diary of Samuel Newman Metcalf (2 Highland): “engine house at Lyman Pond, built and owned by individuals holding shares
of $1.00 each, sold and removed in 1876 when the new engine house was built” Location in 1876 next to the Parish House.
08-01-1876 Norfolk County Deed: 484:1
AMB Fuller
to the Town of Medway “a certain tract of land situated on the southerly side of Main Street in the westerly part of
said Medway and at the corner of land of AP Thayer, hence running westerly on Main Street 26 feet, hence southeast on
a line with the westerly sill of an engine house now standing on said land 63 feet to a point 3 feet distant from said engine
house, hence northeast on a line parallel with said engine house, 26 feet to land of AP Thayer aforesaid, hence northwest
by land of said Thayer 62 feet to the first corner mentioned”
It is now privately owned.
