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44. BUBBLERS: Cogswell’s Infamous Fountains
Manage episode 317858846 series 2949555
In the middle of downtown Pawtucket, there’s an old, no longer functioning drinking fountain that most people assume is just a statue. But it’s one of only a handful of remaining Temperance Fountains, donated to the city by a man who believed that the solution to drunkenness might just be a glass of fresh, cold water.
To Visit: Corner of Roosevelt Ave and Main Street, Pawtucket RI | You can map to 175 Main Street, Pawtucket, RI 02860
Episode Source Material:
- Debunking the the bubbler myth
- Henry D. Cogswell - Wikipedia
- Boston Daily Globe | September 27, 1893
- Temperance fountain - Wikipedia
- “God's Free Gift to Man and Beast” - Henry Cogswell's Temperance Fountains | Rhode Tour
- Dubuque Daily Herald | March 6, 1885
- Sandy Creek News | July 28, 1887
- Frederick Weekly News | May 29, 1884
- Brooklyn Daily Eagle | July 16, 1883
- Thompsonville Press | May 5, 1881
- Stafford Springs Press | October 8, 1885
- “All Benefactors of Man I Claim as My Brethren”: Henry D. Cogswell and his Fountains of Philanthropy | SPMC
- Tompkins Square Park Monuments - Temperance Fountain
- Cogswell Memorial Fountain
- Temperance Fountain: Nobody Knows How Dry It Was - Heyday DC
- Jenks Park and Cogswell Tower , Adjoining £80 Broad Street to the north Providence Central .Falls
- Pawtucket Walking Tour
- Shenipsit Lake - Wikipedia
- Temperance Fountain – Washington, DC - Atlas Obscura
- Prohibition: A Case Study of Progressive Reform | Progressive Era to New Era, 1900-1929 | US History Primary Source Timeline | Classroom Materials at the Library of Congress | Library of Congress
- History of Drinking Water Treatment
- Women Led the Temperance Charge – Prohibition: An Interactive History
- A Brief History of US Drinking - JSTOR Daily
- The time when Americans drank all day long - BBC News
- Access to Free Public Water Fountains Might Have the Temperance Movement to Thank
- 13 Weird Moments In The History Of Water Fountains | HuffPost Life
- New York Times | June 11, 1859
- Mark Twain: The Complete Interviews
71 episodes
Manage episode 317858846 series 2949555
In the middle of downtown Pawtucket, there’s an old, no longer functioning drinking fountain that most people assume is just a statue. But it’s one of only a handful of remaining Temperance Fountains, donated to the city by a man who believed that the solution to drunkenness might just be a glass of fresh, cold water.
To Visit: Corner of Roosevelt Ave and Main Street, Pawtucket RI | You can map to 175 Main Street, Pawtucket, RI 02860
Episode Source Material:
- Debunking the the bubbler myth
- Henry D. Cogswell - Wikipedia
- Boston Daily Globe | September 27, 1893
- Temperance fountain - Wikipedia
- “God's Free Gift to Man and Beast” - Henry Cogswell's Temperance Fountains | Rhode Tour
- Dubuque Daily Herald | March 6, 1885
- Sandy Creek News | July 28, 1887
- Frederick Weekly News | May 29, 1884
- Brooklyn Daily Eagle | July 16, 1883
- Thompsonville Press | May 5, 1881
- Stafford Springs Press | October 8, 1885
- “All Benefactors of Man I Claim as My Brethren”: Henry D. Cogswell and his Fountains of Philanthropy | SPMC
- Tompkins Square Park Monuments - Temperance Fountain
- Cogswell Memorial Fountain
- Temperance Fountain: Nobody Knows How Dry It Was - Heyday DC
- Jenks Park and Cogswell Tower , Adjoining £80 Broad Street to the north Providence Central .Falls
- Pawtucket Walking Tour
- Shenipsit Lake - Wikipedia
- Temperance Fountain – Washington, DC - Atlas Obscura
- Prohibition: A Case Study of Progressive Reform | Progressive Era to New Era, 1900-1929 | US History Primary Source Timeline | Classroom Materials at the Library of Congress | Library of Congress
- History of Drinking Water Treatment
- Women Led the Temperance Charge – Prohibition: An Interactive History
- A Brief History of US Drinking - JSTOR Daily
- The time when Americans drank all day long - BBC News
- Access to Free Public Water Fountains Might Have the Temperance Movement to Thank
- 13 Weird Moments In The History Of Water Fountains | HuffPost Life
- New York Times | June 11, 1859
- Mark Twain: The Complete Interviews
71 episodes
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