HOT SPRINGS After three years of sitting unused at the plaza on the south entrance to the Grand Promenade on Reserve Street in Hot Springs, the Noble Fountain is flowing again.
On an early May Monday morning in 1768, George Washington 36 years old, war veteran, elected official set out to spend the day pursuing one of his favored hobbies, angling in the Potomac River that ran along the lands and farms of Mount Vernon. He may have enjoyed the quiet of a pleasant spring day, but he went home empty-handed. Later he wrote in his diary: “Fishing for Sturgeon from Breakfast to Dinner but catchd none.”