Posted in Utah
May 06, 2020
People Drive From All Over Utah Just To Drink From The Stump At Bicentennial Park
If you’ve had the chance to travel around the state of Utah, you may have found that the taste of the drinking water varies from one place to another. You might enjoy delicious water straight from your tap in Murray, but if you live in Magna, the water definitely has a less-than-ideal flavor.
One way to get tasty water is to find it from a spring or well. There’s a tiny little park in North Ogden that has water that’s so good that people drive from all over to taste it!
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Back in the early 1930s, Clarence Barker drilled a well for irrigation, and found that the water was clean, clear, and delicious. The owner of a nearby hamburger stand piped in the well water to his property, then dragged a large cottonwood tree stump there. The huge stump required the strength of four horses to put it in place.

Over the years, the hamburger stand and its sign went by the wayside, but the tree and its fountain still provided fresh, clean drinking water to the anyone who wanted to bring a container and fill it.



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Address: 2641 N 400 E St, North Ogden, UT 84414, USA