OOTY: Adam’s Fountain at Charring Cross, a landmark in the Queen of Hills, has been spruced up before summer and its attendant tourist season hits Ooty. The Ooty municipality has handed over the maintenance of Adam’s Fountain to a Coimbatore-based private advertising company and work has been completed. The new look of the fountain under floodlights in the night is sure to be a tourist attraction. Built in 1886 as a memorial to Governor Adam of Madras Presidency, it remains a public display fountain. The Governor died in Ooty in 1881. The fountain was established at a cost of `13,000 then, from public subscriptions. Since maintaining the fountain is expensive, the municipal administration has invited private participation for several years now, rejecting councillors’ demands not to hand maintenance over to private companies.
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