Part of a $3.4 million project to revitalize the city, the Jacksonville Fire Museum Sunday was loaded onto a truck bed and sent to its new home at 620 E. Bay St., reports firstcoastnews.com.
Workers dug out the tires and machines laid down concrete-like slabs to guide the path.
The new location lies less than a mile from where it was originally built in 1902, when it served as Fire Station 3. The report notes that, at that time, most of downtown Jacksonville was rebuilding from the Great Fire of 1901. It was first moved back in the ‘60s, then in the ‘70s it moved to metropolitan park, and now it’s back to where it started, the report says.
The museum was closed about six years ago for renovations, but now it’s getting ready to get back at it. Officials anticipate it opening in the next year.