Administered by City of Elberton 203 Elbert Street Elberton Georgia 30635
Located Sutton Square Traffic island at north end Elberton Georgia 30635
Date:
Installed 1976. Dedicated Nov. 11, 1976
Notes:
Save Outdoor Sculpture, Georgia survey, 1993.
Image on file.
Elberton Graniteer (Winter 1976), cover.
(Upper front of shaft, below nest:) D.F.R. (On shaft, incised lettering:) (star)/ELBERTON/GRANITE/BICENTENNIAL/MEMORIAL/FOUNTAIN/(three stars)/COMMEMORATING/THE/200TH/ANNIVERSARY/OF/AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE/(three stars)/1776-1976 (Side of shaft, incised lettering:) (star)/DEDICATED (...transcription illegible) (Panel on basin:) (...transcription illegible)/REVOLUTIONARY WAR PERIOD/(...transcription illegible) (On bench, incised lettering:) OTHERS CONTRIBUTING TO BUILDING OF BICENTENNIAL MEMORIAL FOUNTAIN--1976/(list of eight names follow) signed
ERECTED/DURING/1976/AS A/GIFT/TO/ELBERTON/AND ELBERT COUNTY/BY MEMBER FIRMS/OF THE/ELBERTON GRANITE/ASSOCIATION INC./MAY THIS FOUNTAIN SERVE/AS AN EVERYDAY REMINDER/OF THE ELBERTON GRANITE/INDUSTRY'S INTEREST IN/THIS COMMUNITY AND CON-/TRIBUTIONS TO THIS AREA'S/ECONOMIC AND CIVIC LIFE./DEDICATED/TO/ALL CITIZENS/OF ELBERTON/AND/ELBERT COUNTY/PAST/PRESENT/FUTURE/WHO LOVE THE UNITED/STATES OF AMERICA AND/CHERISH ITS IDEALS OF/LIFE, LIBERTY, AND THE/PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS./TWO CENTURIES OF ADVANCEMENT/FROM AMERICA'S FOUNDING IN 1776 TO ITS BICENTENNIAL/YEAR OF 1976 THE STORY OF ELBERT COUNTY IS ONE OF/STEADY ADVANCEMENTS AND PROGRESS IN AGRICULTURE/AND INDUSTRY IN DEVELOPMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES/IN EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL ACTIVITIES IN/RELIGIOUS AND POLITICAL ENDEAVOR AND IN IMPROVERS/AND THE QUALITIES OF LIFE ENJOYED BY ALL IT'S (sic) CITIZENS
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Summary:
A fountain with an eagle mounted upon a tall granite shaft, set in the center of a basin faced with thirteen granite panels, depicting various periods in Elbert County history from 1776 to 1976. The fountain is in a plaza setting, encircled by a walkway, with a stairway in the front flanked by two benches.
