By Sean Ridgway, TME

About a century ago, the City of Glendale gifted a 400-pound fire bell to the volunteer fire department in Frazier Park, a town that began as a summer getaway for members of Glendale’s Rod & Reel Club. Over the years, that bell has sounded through the mountain air but few residents have ever laid eyes on it. Now, the Ridge Route Communities Museum hopes to change that.

The Glendale bell was originally installed in 1932 in a tower directly across from where the Frazier Park market is today. It was moved to…(please see below to view full stories and photographs)

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Above: The bell is shown here in the tower of the first Glendale Fire Station back in the early 1900s

Above: The fire bell was located in this tower directly across from today’s grocery store in Frazier Park

Above: The bell is presently located in the tower of the fellowship hall at the Reflexion 47 Church in Frazier Park

Above: An illustration of the proposed tower to house the old fire bell at the museum

Above: The bell given to Frazier Park by Glendale in the 1920s

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