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[[Image:Hudgin's Fountain 1886.jpg|right|thumb|225px|Hudgin's Fountain in its original location, outside the [[Florence Hotel]].]]
[[Image:Hudgin's Fountain 1886.jpg|right|thumb|225px|Hudgin's Fountain in its original location, outside the [[Florence Hotel]].]]
[[Image:Hudgins Fountain.jpg|right|thumb|225px|Hudgins' fountain in Capitol Park. Photo by O. V. Hunt courtesy Samford University Library Special Collections]]
[[Image:Hudgins Fountain.jpg|right|thumb|225px|Hudgins' fountain in Capitol Park. Photo by O. V. Hunt courtesy Samford University Library Special Collections]]
The '''Hudgins' fountain''' was a large, multi-tiered cast-iron fountain which was given as a gift to the city of [[Birmingham]] from [[Tarleton Hudgins]]. Hudgins, one of the city's earliest residents, founded the [[T. L. Hudgins & Co.]] private bank, then became president of the [[City Bank of Birmingham]], which merged with the [[First National Bank of Birmingham]].
The '''Hudgins' Fountain''' was a large, multi-tiered cast-iron fountain which was given as a gift to the city of [[Birmingham]] from [[Tarleton Hudgins]]. Hudgins, one of the city's earliest residents, founded the [[T. L. Hudgins & Co.]] private bank, then became president of the [[City Bank of Birmingham]], which merged with the [[First National Bank of Birmingham]].


The large fountain was first erected at the intersection on [[19th Street North|19th Street]] and [[2nd Avenue North]], just outside the  [[Florence Hotel]] and the offices of ''[[The Birmingham Age]]'', in the mid 1880s.
The large fountain was first erected at the intersection on [[19th Street North|19th Street]] and [[2nd Avenue North]], just outside the  [[Florence Hotel]] and the offices of ''[[The Birmingham Age]]'', in the mid 1880s.

Revision as of 13:32, 26 January 2014

Hudgin's Fountain in its original location, outside the Florence Hotel.
Hudgins' fountain in Capitol Park. Photo by O. V. Hunt courtesy Samford University Library Special Collections

The Hudgins' Fountain was a large, multi-tiered cast-iron fountain which was given as a gift to the city of Birmingham from Tarleton Hudgins. Hudgins, one of the city's earliest residents, founded the T. L. Hudgins & Co. private bank, then became president of the City Bank of Birmingham, which merged with the First National Bank of Birmingham.

The large fountain was first erected at the intersection on 19th Street and 2nd Avenue North, just outside the Florence Hotel and the offices of The Birmingham Age, in the mid 1880s.

Within a few years, and following Hudgins' death, the cast-iron fountain was widely considered an "eyesore" responsible for muddying that intersection. In December 1891 it was removed to Capitol Park (or "20th Street Park") by city crews.

The fountain was later dismantled and sold as scrap by the city.

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