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Middleborough Central Fire Station built in 1926 it is 73 years old. The original cost of the building was $55,000. This fire station is to undergo extensive renovations. The fire station will be temporarily moved into the Armory Building on Elm Street. $160,000 has been appropriated, it appears that there will be a request for approximately an additional $140,000 at the Annual Town Meeting to complete the project. The project is scheduled to begin in the Fall of 1999 and be completed in the Spring of the new millennium.
The Middleborough Police Station on North Main Street formerly the Pierce Grocery Store also served as the County Courthouse for a number of years. The building looks today as it did then. The Peirce General Store, because of its location next to the Fire Station and opposite the Public Library and proximity to other central locations, made it desirable as a new home for the police department. Discussions to that end began in 1932 and culminated in a Town Meeting vote on April 8, 1935. At that time the "Committee on New Police Quarters," of which then Police Chief Alden C. Sisson was chairman, recommended that the town purchase from the trustees under the will of Thomas S. Peirce, the Peirce Grocery Store property on North Main St. and remodel the building into quarters for both the Police Department and the Fourth District Court of Plymouth County. |
