Friends of Marshall Square Park

Projects

Save the Date!

Marshall Square Park’s Fountain Rededication September 24, 2016, 4 PM Marshall Square Park E. Marshall & N. Franklin Streets, West Chester Free to All Be there as we celebrate and rededicate our beautiful fountain. Hear the remarkable story of loss, recovery, and restoration. After 65 years, watch the fountain waters spray and rise again. Make history […]

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This happened today…

Tom—from our contractor, Pebble Pools—turned on and tested the Marshall Square Park fountain for the first time. With all seven sprays performing, it’s a glorious sight. Much more work needs doing, like installing the new fence and restoring the surrounding plaza; but it felt so good to see the sprays rising after over 60 years.

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Here they come!

A Beautiful Gift! Last December, Ben & Pete Rotteveel of Dutch Grown LLC donated 2,000 daffodil bulbs — 13 different varieties — to FMSP for planting naturalized drifts in five areas of the park. On the E. Biddle Street drift, many daffodils are up and out. In other areas, many sprouts peek out for their

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A Big, BIG Day for FMSP!

  Watch the remainder of the MSP fountain leaving yesterday for restoration by Heritage Metalworks of Downingtown. Since 1889, the fountain’s lowest tier sat in this spot—the other portions lost but recovered in 2012. In a few months—restored, joined, and re-installed after an absence of over 60 years—you can come see Marshall Square Park’s “new”

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126-year-old fountain being restored in West Chester

By Candice Monhollan cmonhollan@ 21st-centurymedia.com @CMonhollanDLN on Twitter Posted: 07/03/15, 4:49 PM EDT WEST CHESTER >> It has been over 60 years since the five-tiered Victorian fountain stood in Marshall Square Park in West Chester. But Friends of Marshall Square Park (FMSP), a West Chester community group, is changing that as they move forward in

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