The Babylon Fountain

Babylon Village Fountain

From the Babylon Beacon:

The replica of the Fountain, originally located at the corner of Main Street and Deer Park Avenue in Babylon Village some 100 years ago, will be replaced thanks to the very hard work of committee chairman Dr. Chris Proto, committee co-chairman Judy Skillen and Leg. Wayne Horsley and other committee members. After much work and discussion one of the places under consideration for the new fountain is on the east side of the Babylon Village Historical Society Museum. It will be 10 feet high, and will incorporate the features of its predecessor which was destroyed in an accident when the Village trolley, on its way to the dock from the railroad station, was in an accident with the fountain, completely destroying it.

This popped up on my “Babylon Village” Google Alert. The main website for this project is here. Their pretty empty blog is here. Looks like Aaron Stein is handling the webmaster duties.

I really hope this turns out to me something. It’s nice to see the Village trying to recapture some of its lost history.

This entry was written by Gary, posted on October 14, 2009 at 8:17 pm, filed under Babylon, In The News and tagged , , , . Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.

7 Comments

  1. Metroproletarian
    Posted October 14, 2009 at 10:40 pm | Permalink

    Nice! Thanks!

  2. Aaron
    Posted October 19, 2009 at 8:30 pm | Permalink

    i guess now that i know someone has visited the village fountain site, i better fix that one button in the left column that stubbornly refuses to show up.

  3. Gary
    Posted October 19, 2009 at 8:40 pm | Permalink

    Let me know if you need a hand.

  4. Aaron
    Posted October 20, 2009 at 8:17 am | Permalink

    well its a frontpage template. and somehow arbitrarily one of the 3 buttons doesn’t show up. since i didn’t ‘choose’ the button, the template did, and two of the three work fine, i don’t really know how to fix it. my only plan was to make a completely different button but at that point, i might as well get rid of the buttons altogether. if you know how to fix that, i would be happy for the help.

  5. Gary
    Posted October 20, 2009 at 11:13 am | Permalink

    Aaron, The IMG tag is pointing to a non-existent jpeg file. Without being at your desk, it’s hard to know if there is no jpeg for the button or if it’s just mis-named.

    If the weather is nice tomorrow, maybe I’ll take the baby out for a walk and stop by and say hi.

  6. Metroproletarian
    Posted November 8, 2009 at 4:15 pm | Permalink

    This is interesting. Check out the first paragraph (Historical Development).

    http://www.scribd.com/doc/3320022/guide-to-electric-power-generation-second-edition

    I really must get over to the Historical Society!

  7. Metroproletarian
    Posted November 8, 2009 at 4:16 pm | Permalink

    First paragraph of Chapter One, I mean…