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Park Square - Westfield Watering Trough Fountain is a historic object located at Broad St in Westfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts. Built in 1975. It is a contributing property in a National Register historic district. A contributing property in the Westfield Center Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.
Park Square - Westfield Watering Trough Fountain is a historical marker in Westfield, Hampden County. It is one of 129 historical markers documented in Hampden County, among 3,815 historic sites cataloged across the county on MassRoam.
The site sits at 42.1203, -72.7489 near Westfield. The nearest cataloged historic site is 300th Birthday Cake Monument (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Green, The, Westfield Bicentennial Marker, and Westfield Centennial Marker.
This record is drawn from public historical records. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
The Westfield Watering Trough Fountain in Park Square, a 1975 restoration, recalls the granite watering troughs that once stood in New England town centers to water horses in the era before the automobile. It is a contributing object in a National Register historic district.
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