Water Tower Preservation

My buddy Ryan, in NE, sent me this article about water tower preservation in Mississippi.
I have only been to MS once but here is a link to the water tower pictures I got.


HERNANDO, Miss. - There are water towers painted to look like ears of corn, shaped like ketchup bottles, clad in Gothic stonework or advertised as - the world’s tallest Corinthian column.

But most water towers are more like the one in this town just over the state line from Memphis: a common steel structure in which form does not stray from function. Hernando’s water tower, its kettle bottom and funnel-shaped lid vaguely suggestive of the Tin Man, does not even flaunt the colors of the Hernando High School Tigers. It just holds water and, in the time-honored tradition of small-town water towers, tells the wayfarer that he has arrived. Hernando, it says in black block letters.

Yet the people of Hernando are fond of their water tower. So fond that in recent days, at the request of the Hernando Preservation Commission, the town aldermen voted to seek Mississippi landmark status for it, a designation that would help protect and maintain the tower.