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over one of the six original town wells. “You can’t relocate a historic well,” he said. “The residents of our household object to its destruction or removal. If the highway department requires that, forget the whole deal with the highway department. That is the town’s history. You can’t destroy history in the name of so-called progress.”
He maintained that there is room for two lanes of traffic on the other side of the fountain and well if parking is forbidden on the post office side of the street.
Mayor Dean Morehouse said, “The issue is do we want the street in the system. There is an objection that an artifact would be destroyed. It is not a significant artifact in my eyes. It’s in disrepair, and it’s not likely to be restored. We could answer the cry to save the well as a historic element, there are lots of historic elements that are not significant artifacts...We can save it, but the well has no redeeming value, and it’s probably a liability.”
Ms. Van Dort suggested the site could be commemorated with a brass plaque placed in the street.
Mr. Morehouse said he thought the town could petition to have the stub street taken into the state system and still control what changes are made.
Mr. Miller said, “When the state takes a road, they assume the liability. They’re not going to allow an offset street.”
The council decided to table consideration of the resolution on the stub street to allow townspeople to have a say at the November meeting.
Tom Zumwalt, representing the Washington Business Council, said that
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