Today I went to Bucks to get a haircut. Intersting stories heard there.
Apparently Purity Springs was at Hanna and Lynn. The Springs was capped off and supplied water to the neighborhood. People had Purity Springs water meters and paid their bills at Osborne. The City eventually closed it down. However water from that spring flow down a ravine to the River near Epps Park. In addition there are other springs in the area. A notatable example is the last house on the North side of North Street where there have a pipe draining offthe spring into the gutter. Also apparently there is a boil in the river where a springs comes out.
One of the people I was listening to was Henry, who lived on Fern for 60 years. He bought his house for $9500.
I wrote a little about the North Street spring in October. Look HERE.
ReplyDeleteThere are some photos of some of the neighborhood springs as well as other sights posted HERE.
i always thought purity springs was on the street across from the water tower {the street with the marina.} their was a purity springs water company and beer was also made.}
ReplyDeleteMy house (Branch & Hillsborough)used to have a spring in the back yard (along with a water tower until the thirties). People have told us they remember coming to the house as children with their parents to fill up their bottles as late as the seventies. the Water tower was there on the 1915 through 1928 Sanborn maps, but was gone on the 1931 map. Apparently there was a spigot out front and a sign. I'm still trying to find more of the history on this.
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