Binghamton, NY Binghamton, NY no longer has a National Humane Alliance Fountain. The city, like many others, abandoned its 1902 fountain many years ago as a watering trough for horses was no longer needed. As you can see in the earlier story below, the city eventually sold the fountain for $5 and it cost the new owner $35 to move it to his property where it sat for decades until things changed in 2018 and 2019.
As noted below, the property and fountain eventually became the property of Benny Oliveri. He tried to contact civic leaders to see if there was any interest in having the city buy it back for a more suitable public display but got no response. In the course of his own research, he had contacted us for information on the fountain. Fast forward to 2018 when someone in Rochester contacted us asking if we knew of any towns interested in selling one of the fountains as they wanted to find a replacement for their own fountain in the Rochester Public Market which had been abandoned and lost many years ago. We connected them with Benny and a deal was struck and Rochester received their new fountain which was moved to the Public Market and formally dedicated on Septermber 28, 2019. You can see more on the Rochester page.
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