Catharine Thorn Fountain

At the turn of the 20th Century, Miss Catharine Thorn bequeathed money to the Women’s Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to AnimalsCatharine Thorn Fountain 1936 for the installation of a drinking fountain in the large open space created where South Street, 23rd Street, and Grays Ferry converge. Erected out of one solid piece of granite in 1901, the fountain basin, roughly 7 feet in circumference, provided drinking water to horses; underneath was for dogs. On hot days it would whet the whistles of hundreds of horses.