{"id":10178,"date":"2018-07-06T08:30:07","date_gmt":"2018-07-06T08:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kingstonpubliclibrary.org\/newsite\/?p=10178"},"modified":"2022-01-08T17:33:41","modified_gmt":"2022-01-08T17:33:41","slug":"watering-trough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/2018\/07\/06\/watering-trough\/","title":{"rendered":"Watering trough at the Point"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_10180\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10180\" style=\"width: 604px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kingstonpubliclibrary.org\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/hou-98-0007-lhr-A.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10180 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kingstonpubliclibrary.org\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/hou-98-0007-lhr-A-1024x607.jpg\" alt=\"The Henry R. Glover Water Trough at the Point, Main Street and Summer Street, c. 1925\" width=\"604\" height=\"358\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10180\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Henry R. Glover Water Trough at the Point, Main Street and Summer Street, c. 1925<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In 1888, Henry R. Glover, a wealthy manufacturer of mattresses and \u201ccurled hair\u201d from Cambridge, donated the \u201cHenry Glover Watering Trough\u201d to the town for public use. It was placed, and remains, at the Point, that triangular plot of land at the intersection of Main and Summer Streets. Glover was the son of Rev. Samuel Glover, a Baptist minister, who raised his family in the Samuel Foster House on Summer Street opposite the Point. The trough was a place for horses and dogs to drink after the town dismantled and covered the Point Well.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: Image from the Local History Room Image Collection IC7.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1888, Henry R. Glover, a wealthy manufacturer of mattresses and \u201ccurled hair\u201d from Cambridge, donated the \u201cHenry Glover Watering Trough\u201d to the town for public use. It was placed, and remains, at the Point, that triangular plot of land at the intersection of Main and Summer Streets. Glover was the son of Rev. Samuel &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/2018\/07\/06\/watering-trough\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Watering trough at the Point&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10180,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[293,292],"tags":[134,252],"class_list":["post-10178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lhc","category-pique-of-the-week","tag-houses","tag-the-point"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22093,"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10178\/revisions\/22093"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}