Big Spring current image

Fri Apr 19 10:47:00 EDT 2019

I’m like you Bud. Have passed it many times and just thought it was a wetland full of old watercress. Thanks to Abram’s question we now know more about ‘Big Spring’. Not sure it’s use. The enclosure may have been a way to keep the spring clean in order to supply water to the watercress production. Wonder how watercress was harvested? Looks to be a wet, cold job.

Any earlier photos of the spring would be interesting too.   John Garner

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I have seen this road-side view of the “The” Big Spring for more than 70 years passing by it on Route 11.  Didn’t realize until today that this was the Big Spring.  With the concrete walls and all, what was the use of the spring—a source of water, or what?

Bud Jeffries

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Yes, nice work Mike.

Mr. Thompson is standing about a quarter mile downstream from the spring itself. Here is a google, road-side view of the spring.  https://goo.gl/maps/KexCpS6d8QzvUbiC7

You can see some of the stone retaining wall that’s shown in the postcard.

John Garner

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We stoped in Elliston this afternoon and 

met Jim Thompson who owns Big Spring and was knowledgeable about the watercress going to market. He was gracious enough to let me take his picture. Also, I went about 500 feet north and shot where a local road crosses the tracks and a small building with a “salvaged” Train Station sign.

A small bridge over a creek should nail down the location for any trainmen that traversed this route.

Mike Pierry, Jr.

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