Milan Village Hall & Firebarn - Milan, Michigan
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N 42° 05.045 W 083° 40.842
17T E 278274 N 4662589
The Milan Firebarn is currently serving as the Visitors Center.
Waymark Code: WM357M
Location: Michigan, United States
Date Posted: 02/11/2008
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From the following website (
visit link) we find:
In February 1897, a new brick fire station was dedicated in Milan. The village paid $1,314.89 for the building, and the job was about $9 over the bid.
Later that same year, the village bought a 790-pound fire bell costing $84. It didn’t last long-- during one of the fires, they banged the bell too hard and broke it. The cracked bell is stored someplace in Milan .
The village fire fighters had to get along with wet fire hose until 1906, when the village had a hose drying tower built on the fire barn opposite the front doors.
The brick building was used as a council office, fire barn, library, and jail for many years. Eventually a new fire station was built on Wabash just south of Main, where the Saline River had once been located. The old brick building had given about a century of use when local history supporters came to the rescue and renovated the old building. It now serves as the office for the Milan Area Chamber of Commerce and the City of Milan Downtown Development Authority .