Built against Zion's Hill, the first Newmarket fire station housed Tiger No. 1, a hand-pumped fire engine called a "handtub," purchased by the town in 1852. Tiger No. 1 and Granite No. 2, owned by the Newmarket Manufacturing Co., fought the Great Fire of 1866, which leveled every building from Tasker Lane to Depot Square and from Water Street to Creighton Block.