I’m in Edinboro today and it’s very hot. I want to tell you a story about something that was erected here in 1913. A place where man and beast would come and get a refreshing drink. It’s not a saloon. It’s a fountain and it has a fascinating history.
I’m standing beside the Edinboro Fountain. Jay Marcinowski, Vice-President of the Edinboro Area Historical Society, is filling me in on that history. He says the fountain goes back to the days when downtown Edinboro had all wooden buildings, all dirt streets, and horses were the main source of transportation. After the third major fire in nine years, water lines were finally installed downtown in 1909.
“In 1910, the Conneautee Brotherhood, kind of a downtown economic community at that time, decided We are going to put in a fountain,” says Jay…