Temperance Fountain (Washington, D.C.)
in Washington, United StatesCategory: Attraction
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PENNSYLVANIA AVE & 7TH ST NW fs wb, Washington, DC 20004, USA Print route »
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The Temperance Fountain is a fountain and statue located in Washington, D.C., donated to the city in 1882 by Henry D. Cogswell, a dentist from San Francisco, California, who was a crusader in the temperance movement.This fountain was one of a series of temperance fountains he designed and commissioned in a belief that easy access to cool drinking water would keep people from consuming alcoholic beverages.
