Great find from yesteryear
Thought I would share this picture with everyone. I came across what look to be an old spring-house while native fishing a small mountain stream in north central PA. It was built into the side of a slate rock formation. I wanted to look inside but did not have a light and I was a bit leery of maybe finding a snake or two that might have made this their residents.
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Professor
Beautiful!!
I have a few pictures of an old spring house way up in the hills of South Dakota. Yes, there are hills in South Dakota!! I've always been afraid to look too close for fear of what (or who) may be inside, too, though I may give it a whirl if we ever get up there again!
Professor ... if you do get to look in ... let us know what you find!!!
Trouts don't live in ugly places.
A friend is not who knows you the longest, but the one who came and never left your side.
Don't look back, we ain't goin' that way.
Now that's a real treasure. I get back there and keep shooting pictures.
Such a find. I've come across only one in my travels; it was near willow city, Texas.
No man can have too many fly rods;
no woman too many shoes.
OK, so I grew up in Brooklyn and don't know what a spring-house is. Please enlighten.
A Spring House is built over and around a natural spring, usually partially dug into the ground or a hillside. The results give you a nice dark and cool place to store things...sort of the original "walk-in" refrigerator.
A right emblem it may be, of the uncertain things of this world; that when men have sold them selves for them, they vanish into smoke. ~ William Bradford
I finally realized that Life is a metaphor for Fly Fishing.
also to keep debris and animals out of your drinking waterOriginally Posted by gadabout
"Fishermen are born honest, but they get over it"
Ed Zern
This is fascinating. Get yourself a flashlight, a sturdy stick (for "residents"), and go back and post photos of what you find! That's really an interesting picture!
Thanks for your post and picture. Wouldn't it be great if you were able to find out some of the history of that spring house? Did someone live near it, and are there other building foundations in the area? Just imagine all the work that went into building it.
I grew up a bit north of you (Warren County), and as a young kid spent many summer days fishing small brook trout streams in the Alleghenies, and from time to time I also came across "treasures" from a bygone era that had been lost and forgotten in the forest.
My great uncle, whom I lived with for a time in a log cabin, and I often walked some distance in the woods to where there was a spring where we got some of our drinking water. (I remember that my great aunt, who was born in the late 1800's, was even originally from Kersey, or somewhere closeby there.) Your picture brings back many fond memories. Thanks.
Man, if those stone walls could only talk what a story they could tell. Sure is amazing what folks could do with years ago and they did very well. Y'all take care.
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