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| The Parkesburg Fountain (center) in a turn-of-the-century postcard. The Parkesburg Bank building is the prominent set of buildings on the far right. (Gerry Treadway's collection) |
In a post in August 2009 I asked if anyone knew who had removed Parkesburg's historic water fountain, pictured above, from its pedestal across the street from Rocco's and Anna's restaurant on Main Street.
The fountain sat at the intersection of Main Street and Strasburg Road and gave horses at the turn of the century a cool drink of water while their riders shopped at nearby hardware or department stores.
Removed in a burst of modernization in the 1950's and restored by Jeff Hery in the 1990's, the fountain disappeared from it's red brick pedestal without explanation in the summer of 2009.
As the restoration of the Parkesburg Bank building pictured above wraps up in the coming weeks and Keller-Williams opens Parkesburg's first real estate office in decades in the three store fronts of that historic building, its time to ask again...
Who took the fountain, where it is now, and how can Parkesburg get it back?
2 comments:
Wasn't Blue Sky Realty on Main Street a year or two ago. They didn't stay long, but they were there.
Perhaps Donald. I seem to remember their sign in the window. But I don't recall ever seeing the office open or someone inside. Not your prospering real estate office to be sure.
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