A mystery in Franklin Park: Is a fountain from the 1800s buried there?
In the black-and-white photograph dated 1893, a young girl stands near a cavernous drinking fountain in Franklin Park, leaves and branches spilling around it as she reaches for a cup of water.
The “fountain in blasted rock,” as it’s labeled in the image, is massive. If it were still around today, it would be impossible to miss.
But a recent revelation by an employee with the Emerald Necklace Conservancy, which helps maintain the park, has sparked questions about whether the fountain is perhaps still there, buried beneath the earth but for a small lip of stone.
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