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* From the 1940s until it was removed in the mid 1980s, Loreauville had a Tin Man style water tower which was located adjacent to the existing Loreauville Volunteer Fire Department Fire Station on Bridge Street.

The tower was located between the Fire Station and the bridge and held approximately 50, 000 U. S. gallons of water.

Its architectural style was reminiscent of the character Tin Man in the movie The Wizard of Oz ( 1939 film ).

Tin Man water towers continue to dot the increasingly urbanized landscape in America, but are rapidly disappearing as more modern and larger capacity water towers are constructed as their replacement.

With the construction of the new water tower on the North end of the village in the early 1980s, the original Tin Man water tower was declared obsolete and torn down.