Station 9 - West Woods - Johnson Road at Still Hill Road
August 1956 - The newly-organized West Woods Volunteer Co. No. 9 trains at Sneiderman's Pond with members of the paid department.
This one-room schoolhouse at the corner of Johnson Road and Still Hill Road still served Hamden students in the extreme north end until the early 1950s. A couple of years later, this building would become the fire station and meeting house for the West Woods Volunteer Fire Association. (Photo by Carl J. Jensen)
December 1967 - Groundbreaking for new Station 9. Ten years earlier, the old one-room schoolhouse was modified with a garage for the apparatus assigned to Co. 9 volunteers.
This photo dated August 21, 1968 shows how the garage at old Station 9 was converted into a meeting room, even though the new Station 9 would not be ready for occupancy until the end of the year. The A-frame garage that housed Co. 9's 1929 Seagrave tiller ladder truck can be seen in the background. This was probably the temporary garage for Co. 9's engine while the new station was under construction. The West Woods Volunteer Co. No. 9 disbanded in the late 1980s. This building became fire headquarters for several years starting in the mid-1990s.
Summer 1968 - New Station 9 under construction. You can see the newly constructed, yet unpainted meeting room of old Station 9 in the background, on the RH edge of the photo. New Haven Register photographer I.A. (Izzy) Sneiderman took this photo. Mr. Sneiderman lived directly across Still Hill Road from new Station 9 and was a frequent visitor in the years that followed.
