Word: fountaineer
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...group of Freemasons marched from Georgetown to the site of what is now the White House and laid a cornerstone. That evening, though, by about the 11th toast--this one to "the fair daughters of America"--the congenial gathering of Freemasons at Georgetown's Fountain Inn had begun to grow a bit hazy about where they had laid that particular stone earlier...
...that Saturday, according to the anonymous letter, a crowd gathered at the Fountain Inn and shuffled down the dusty street to the raw construction site, optimistically termed the President's park...
...like to think there was a huzzah or two, but no one knows. We do know the group "retreated, in regular order, to Mr. Sutter's Fountain Inn, where an elegant dinner was provided. The whole concluded with the greatest harmony and order...
...ahead and take a drink," Dave Krause, 69, says at the fountain that's been bubbling out back of New Haven Town Hall since he was a kid. "You can drink it straight out of the spring...
...took nearly 10 years to complete the building. The cornerstone was laid on Oct. 13, 1792, in one of those wonderfully proper Masonic rituals of the time. According to White House historian William Seale, people gathered at the Fountain Inn, a grand eating and drinking emporium in Georgetown. They shuffled down the dusty road to the White House site led by the Freemasons, who were followed by the federal district commissioners, and behind them came "gentlemen of the town and neighborhood" (as described in a Charleston, S.C., newspaper that provided the only written record of the event). There...