Visit the Robert A. Bogan Fire Museum

Bogan Firehouse Featured in Country Roads

John Q. Bradfield’s death at age twenty-eight in November 1908 made the front page of the Baton Rouge Daily Advocate. He was given a hero’s burial by the fire department, decorated in the company’s colors and interred in front of the fire station where he had lived and worked for thirteen years. The mound was kept green and well mowed, and flowers were laid there often by children who had known and loved him….