Woman's Christian Temperance Union Fountain is a historic temperance fountain located at Rehoboth Beach,

Sussex County, Delaware Sussex County is a county in the southern part of the U.S. state of Delaware, on the Delmarva Peninsula. As of the 2020 census, the population was 237,378, making it the state's second most populated county behind New Castle and ahead of Ke ...

. It was erected by the

Woman's Christian Temperance Union The Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) is an international temperance organization. It was among the first organizations of women devoted to social reform with a program that "linked the religious and the secular through concerted and far ...

in 1929 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Delaware branch of the organization. It measures six feet tall, three feet wide, and is constructed of

granite Granite ( ) is a coarse-grained (phanerite, phaneritic) intrusive rock, intrusive igneous rock composed mostly of quartz, alkali feldspar, and plagioclase. It forms from magma with a high content of silica and alkali metal oxides that slowly coo ...

.The Go Cup blog, June 2009
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in 1977.

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Drinking fountains in the United States Rehoboth Beach, Delaware National Register of Historic Places in Sussex County, Delaware Woman's Christian Temperance Union Buildings and structures completed in 1929 History of women in Delaware 1929 establishments in Delaware Fountains on the National Register of Historic Places {{Delaware-NRHP-stub

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