The Pleasance - Newtown, CT - Fountains on Waymarking.com

This is a four-tiered fountain in a park called The Pleasance in Newtown, CT. The park is adjacent to the former police station. The fountain sits next to the gravel walking path. It has a stone base that houses the basin, and an additional three levels above it.

According to the Newtown Bee, the fountain was found at an antiques market in the nearby town of Wilton and had to be restored by a blacksmith.

""That fountain would look nice at the Lovell corner," Helen Smith said as she zeroed in on a three-tier cast iron Fiske example at the outdoor Wilton Antiques Marketplace last summer. The next day Don Heller, a dealer from Portland, Me., was in Newtown unloading the fountain from his truck, and suddenly a major project was in the making for The Bee Publishing Co.

Attention had to be first given to the condition of the fountain. It had not been used for many years and had grown a healthy crop of rust in areas where an orange colored paint had worn off. Professional help was badly needed and found in the person of Chris Bowman, a blacksmith of many talents working in Shelton. Within a week the fountain was back to its former self, clean of rust and dirt and painted with a gray primer. The sandblasting process took away the grime and now the small turtles and frogs which line the rim of the bottom pan of the fountain are sharp and distinct."

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