The U.S. Life-Saving Services – a forerunner to the U.S. Coast Guard — was established by Congress in 1871 in response to the high loss of life in ship wrecks along America’s coastlines, particularly on the Atlantic coast. Bill was just one of the many horses that served with the USLSS.
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1930: Bill, the U.S. Life-Saving Services Horse of Fire Island, New York
Posted: 19th October 2013 by The Hatching Cat in Horse TalesTags: Blue Point, breeches buoy, Coast Guard history, Fire Island, Lyle Gun, New York History, Sumner Kimball, U.S. Life-Saving Services
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1901: Harry, the Blue-Ribbon Police Horse of Prospect Park
Posted: 2nd September 2013 by The Hatching Cat in Horse TalesTags: Brooklyn, Mounted Police, New York History, Parade Grounds, Patrolman Henry T. Hilton, Prospect Park Police, Riding and Driving Club of Brooklyn
Harry was a wonderful horse who served with the Prospect Park Police from 1893 to 1901 and who won several blue ribbons at the annual Brooklyn Horse Show.
1919 and 1922: Bulb, the Bad-Luck Police Horse of the NYPD Mounted Police
Posted: 14th August 2013 by The Hatching Cat in FDNY Horses/Mascots, Horse TalesTags: 73rd Precinct, Christopher J Tierney, Flatbush Avenue, Frank J Mace, Kings Highway, Mounted Unit, New York History, NYPD, Police horse
NYPD Mounted Police Heroes, Part I Since 1871, the year that the Board of Police established the first official Mounted Police Unit in New York City, more than a dozen mounted patrolmen have been killed in the line of duty in horse-related incidents. Most of these men died after being violently thrown from their horses […]
1903: C.K.G. Billings’ $50K Horseback Dinner at Louis Sherry’s Restaurant
Posted: 28th February 2013 by The Hatching Cat in Horse TalesTags: C.K.G. Billings, Colored Orphan Asylum, Fort Tryon Park, Harlem River Speedway, horseback dinner, Louis Sherry, New York City History
In 1903, wealthy industrialist and equestrian Cornelius Kingsley Garrison Billings hosted a $50,000 horseback dinner in New York City.
