The Drumheller Fountain
The marvelous fountain that you are looking at is one of the famous fountains that you will see in Seattle, this is the Drumheller Fountain. The Drumheller Fountain is also known as the “Frosh Pond” since the fountain is often dirty and it is rarely cleaned. The Drumheller Fountain is a place where you can find a lot of ducks, and during the winter when the pond is frozen solid, a lot of ducks walk on top of the frozen water of the Drumheller Fountain. The Drumheller Fountain was donated by Regent Joseph Drumheller to the University of Washington for its centennial celebration in 1961.
The Drumheller Fountain was originally the centerpiece of the Olmstead Brother’s landscape plan; this was intended for the Alaska – Yukon – Pacific exposition during 1909. During that time the Drumheller Fountain was called the Geyser Basin, the Drumheller Fountain has long cascading water that is flowing down into the hill below it.
The Drumheller Fountain became known to all as the Frosh Pond, because during that time around the 1900’s there were a lot of freshmen students that was thrown into the fountain’s water, and the named Frosh Pond was stuck with the Drumheller Fountain till today.
However, even the messy name that the Drumheller Fountain had on its earlier years, and it doesn’t have the beautiful cascades that it has before. But, still you will take a view of the real cascades. The Drumheller Fountain now has a built – in lighting system and three banks of jets. The Drumheller Fountain’s center jet can shoot water around 100 ft above the air, and the two jets that surrounds the rings of jets can shoot water from 10 – 30 ft. not just that, you can also so get an amazing view of Mt. Rainier behind it!