![Fire Museum of Texas in Beaumont](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20071120050423im_/http://www.traveltex.com/images/database_images/big/2006/pg5135.jpg)
Photographer: Kevin Stillman
Visitors see evolution of firefighting, from "bucket brigade" to modern firefighting vehicles. Collection includes late 19th-century hand-drawn and operated pumper and hose reel, 1892 steam fire engine, early 20th-century motorized pumper, and other memorabilia. In former Houston Fire Dept. Station No. 7 at Milam and McIlhenny sts. Admission fee.