The 5th and final place that I will be bring you to will be the Tan Kim Seng fountain. The reason for this choice is because this is one of the monuments that commemorate one of the major contributors to Singapore's history. Tan Kim Seng was born during the year 1805 in Malacca. He made a fortune as a trader and then migrated to Singapore. He started his own company in Singapore, Kim Seng and Company in 1840 and soon made a huge fortune. Mr. Tan's public acts of charity included donating to a certain Chinese Free School, helping the Tan Tock Seng hospital, improving public waterworks systems around Singapore during the 1800s.
One of Mr. Tan's most well known donations was a total sum of $13,000 during 1857 towards building Singapore's first public waterworks system to supply cleaner fresh water to the Singaporeans. However, that donation was eventually in vain as the Government Engineer squandered away all his money in hopes of making water run up hill through water pipes. The Municipal Commission ordered the fountain to be built to thanks Mr.Tan's for his donation.
Later in 1882, the British Colonial goverenment honoured him by installing his fountain at Fullerton Square before moving it to battery park in 1905 followed by its third move to Esplanade Park where it stands to today in 1925.
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