WWI Memorial and Horse Fountain Lion Spigots - Eastland TX
N 32° 24.069 W 098° 49.135
14S E 517029 N 3584915
Lion spigots served to funnel water into this elegant horse trough and World War I Memorial in downtown Eastland TX
Waymark Code: WMMFBF
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 09/12/2014
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Always practical, Eastland County residents erected this handsome horse fountain as a WWI memorial to Eastland County residents killed in that awful war.
The spigots for the horse trough are lion faces.
The horse trough would have been a welcome and well-utilized addition to the square in the 1920s, when it would still be very common to see horses around town.
The fountain also served as a WWI memorial, and is engraved as follows:
"Erected by the Civic League in Memory of Those from Eastland Co Who Made Supreme Sacrifice in World War
Lewis Alexander Dulin
Dennis George Perdue
Winter B. Daniels
James Lee Miller
Wes B. Wright
Edgar A Bailey
Ernest Clyde Dunnham
Beam
Jones
Shirley
Robinson
John Hastings
Nunn
Carl Barnes
Charlie Ferguson
Leslie Groves
Alfred Gentry
Fritz Windl
Reid Boon
Clyde Acock
Roy Graves
Charles Smith
Thomas Smith
Grady Ramsey
Finis Walker
Frank Bryan
Alvin Mooney"
Physical Address:
SW Corner Eastland County Courthouse grounds
Eastland, TX
Web Site: [Web Link]
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Visit Instructions:
Take a photo of the lion.