Throwback to Civil War Era: The First Known Photo of Woonsocket Police Department

The Woonsocket Police Department continues to share blasts from the past each Thursday in celebration of the social media trend, “throwback thursday.”

This week’s photo is thrown all the way back to the Civil War era.

It is the first known photo of Woonsocket Police Department/Constables, according to a post on the Woonsocket Police Department Facebook page.

Here are the men pictured:

• Seated is Town Sgt. Horace Pierce and Joseph C. Friske.
• Standing is Conrad Cook, Edward Thurber, Elijah Craig, Lemuel Allen and Silas Adams.

Last week, Woonsocket Police Department shared a throwback photo of a Woonsocket Patrolman sitting atop his patrol horse in 1923.

Check out the photo here.

• Throwback to 1923: Woonsocket Patrolman and His Patrol ‘Car’

Image via Woonsocket Police Department Facebook page.

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