…was built ca 1890, when Montgomery had grown up the hill from downtown, and it was too difficult for the fire horses to pull the heavy fire equipment up the steep slopes to an outbreak. Ergo, they built a new station up the hill in the residential neighborhood. Back then the firefighters were all volunteers; Montgomery did not have a city fire dept until 1898. The horse drawn fire engine era did not end until 1926. The Scott Street station remained in service until 1966. I recall seeing a movie made in Montgomery circa 1915 which showed a horse drawn fire apparatus rushing past the Capitol on Bainbridge Street. The scott street firehouse was added to the National Registry of Historic Places in 1981.

-Charles Humphries