Is This America’s Ugliest Statue?
Podcast: The Atlas Obscura PodcastPublished On: Tue Nov 26 2024
Description: In the 1880s, an eccentric California dentist gave away free public water fountains in the hopes they would encourage people to drink less alcohol. One of them went to the small town of Rockville, Connecticut, where it was… not well received. In fact, it was torn down, thrown in a local lake, torn down again… and so on.Check out the Atlas entry for the Cogswell Fountain.
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