Connecticut Firemen's Historical Society
Preserving Connecticut's Fire Service History
About The Fire Museum
Welcome to The Fire Museum, the home of the Connecticut Firemen’s Historical Society, located amidst the renovated red-brick mill buildings of the Cheney National Historic and Landmark District in Manchester, CT.
The Museum is housed in a 1901 wooden firehouse, originally built by the Manchester Volunteer Firemen with funds donated by the Cheney Family, world renowned manufacturers of fine silk fabrics.
A wide variety of Connecticut collectibles and eleven pieces of apparatus are on display throughout our historic building.
2023 Season Highlights

CT Fire Academy Cadet Tours
This year we had two groups of Connecticut Fire Academy Cadets that came through the museum. These cadets are part of the Introduction to the Fire Service class that the CFA holds each year. We look forward each year to having the cadets in the museum for a tour.

Kevin McKeon Book Signing

2023 Connecticut Room Display

Flanagan Family Visit
The family of the late Andrew Flanagan the past Chief of Training with the New Haven Fire Dept visited the museum. They recently donated a early Hartford Fire Dept helmet and a chief engineers front. The family wanted to visit the museum with some out of state family members.

Lighting up the hose tower

Exhibit Improvements
We are constantly thinking of ways to improve our exhibits here at the museum. CFHS Board Members took on the challenge and made custom lantern holders for each of our lanterns that are on display. Each lantern now sits safely on a wall-mounted display shelf in the first-floor display area.
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