Goodwill Fire Engine Company No. 5

Off-white background and brown text and brown filagree along the rim with a sepia-toned photograph center. The photograph features a man sitting on top of a horse-drawn carriage that is emerging from an arched stone door. 

The Goodwill Steam and Chemical Fire Company No. 5 went through several name changes since its founding in 1839. First founded in Freystown, Pennsylvania, the company was named the Springgarden Active Fire Company. At this time, firefighters used a hand-operated fire engine, which had to be manually supplied with buckets of water. In 1852, the company changed its name to the Good Will Fire Company No. 1 of Freystown. The fire company received its first steam fire engine from the Silsby Manufacturing Company in March of 1888. After Freystown was annexed into the city of York, the fire company changed its name for the final time in 1901 to the Goodwill Steam and Chemical Fire Company No. 5. The company moved into the "motorized era" in 1915 with its addition of a motorized fire engine with a "combination chemical and hose apparatus." The demolition of the company’s second house in Freystown started in October 1902; however, as of 2024, the bigger firehouse built on the same lot in 1903 is still occupied and used by the company.