Fletch wrote: ↑Fri Aug 20, 2021 4:57 am
WOW-Just WOW!!!
Incredible. I was hoping something like this would turn up.
I briefly looked at your map. Some info I have:
*Siren #89: B+M horizontal siren (from old pic of Jackson Twp. fire station)
*Neil House Hotel (demolished 1981, now Huntington Center) first T-Bolt in system
*Siren #11 was originally an STL-10 and caught fire in Apr. 1974 tornado/replaced by T-Bolt IIRC
*Orel & W. Broad STL-10 according to a poster
*Binns Blvd. & Sullivant Ave. STL-10 according to a poster
*Shawnee Hills Police Dept.: XT22 (saw it in person)
*STL-10 in Plain City came from Franklin County
*Bexley Pool had a siren (possible T-Bolt) according to family
I think many of the unknowns are probably STL-10's. Many were sold off to Union and Fulton counties.
I'll study your map a bit more. But you've got a way more comprehensive map than I have.
You don't happen to have any photographs of the Shawnee Hills siren, or the B&M, do you? If you did it'd be extremely helpful.
I know many of the rural stations around there had Sterlings, perhaps that's what that is?
I will take note of the locations that you stated are via posters and see if I can see anything on the ODOT aerial archive tiles.
Edit: Shawnee Hills is in Delaware County, not Franklin, which probably explains why I didn't have it on my list since it's not a Franklin County siren.
I believe the master list I have is circa 1988 or so, but it is undated aside from the relocated units mentioned on it (the latest year a unit was relocated on that list is 1987. There also appears to have been around 3 units that were never listed on the map despite never being moved prior to then. A couple of the other bolts were moved after this list, i.e. the Smoky Row Road unit; it would have probably been a relocation as that unit was never there in 1979 or 1989 aerials, but is by 2004.
As for the units sold, there was a huge auction in 1992 where Franklin County sold off quite a few of their old sirens. As you mentioned, some went to Union County. We know of the one in Plain City and the other STL in Union as well, they supposedly recieved 5 units according to a newspaper article in the Marysville newspaper but I haven't turned up anything to support any of these other units actually being received or going anywhere.
The NW Ohio county you're thinking of is Williams County, I believe. I cannot recall any going to Fulton County, iirc. Williams got a Fedelcode 5, a Model 7T (which I was not aware Franklin County had), 2 STL-10s, and a Thunderbeam, based off of what I read in a news article in the local paper in Williams County.
Several older sirens were acquired by Werden Electric in the '92 auction and were installed in several communities in Hamilton County around 1993 and served there until they were replaced by the new siren system. These consisted of mostly Thunderbolts and a few STL-10s as well.
Also the Thunderbolt on top of the Blind School is still standing, it is a 1952/1953 jailbar unit. I found out it was still standing when I plugged in the location on the master list and did some looking, I believe someone from the local area went out and got photographs of that siren.