The collections
The Westphal Hose Company No. 5 is dedicated to making Berkeley County, WV’s long, rich history visible and accessible to all. This site serves as a space to pay homage to local collective memory, preserving a vast collection of artifacts, photographs, maps, manuscript materials and multi-media as made available by our archive, community veterans of firefighting and the people who donate.
Get to know them
Every town has their legends, lore and heros. Let’s take a deeper look at the founding fathers of local fire fighting and how these individuals impacted the city of Martinsburg, and county.
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Equipment
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See the Full Archive
Just browsing? With the biggest archive of firefighting history in West Virginia, we’ve organized our artifacts and digital resources in a fully searchable database.
