#130Years Ago This Week: Clapp & Jones Steamer Acquired by Nyack Fire Company Excerpt from the Rockland County Journal, June 11, 1887 Jackson Engine Company, No. 3, of this place, deciding that a steamer was preferable by far to a hand engine, went to Kingston and purchased a Clapp & Jones steamer which has just been put in the best order. The water pressure in Kingston is so great that engines are not needed there, and this machine was sold to the Nyack company at a very reasonable figure. It reached this place on Wednesday afternoon. Image: A Clapp & Jones Steamer with the Jackson Engine Company, c. 1915. Photo courtesy of the Nyack Library from the collection of Winston Perry. To see a video from our colleagues at the FASNY Fire Museum in Hudson NY about the Clapp & Jones Steamer click here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmYxh84w3Z0 The HSRC is pleased to be compiling “This Week in Rockland” a weekly feature appearing in the Rockland Review. Check out other events that happened this week in history! On Newsstands everywhere or online at www.rocklandreviewnews.com www.RocklandHistory.org