Effort seeks to preserve historic temperance monument in Park River, N.D.
The Park River fountain has international historical significance because it is one of fewer than 100 WCTU monuments left in the world, Frisby said. The WCTU, an organization that supported social causes including temperance, built the fountain in hopes that it would encourage people to drink more water and less alcohol.
1:21 pm, Apr. 18, 2021
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Park River, N.D., architect Agatha Frisby, left, and attorney Tracy Laaveg survey the community's Women's Christian Temperance Union monument. Residents hope to restore the rare structure, which dates to 1906. Photo by Eric Hylden/Grand Forks Herald