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Gastonia forms early fire protection and honors chief
Gastonia's 1900 1907 fire service history shows aldermen allowing black residents to organize a 12 member fire company and a poll tax relief, then a white volunteer company, the first fire chief George Glenn, later W P Upton, and a 1905 fire code defining fire limits that shape downtown construction to this day.
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Board of Aldermen
Gastonia
Anders
Floyd
T.L. Craig
Craig
W.E. Long
J.L. Robinson
George Glenn
W.P. Upton
Upton
Oakland Avenue
Airline
Chester Street
Franklin Boulevard
T.W. Wilson