It’s been four years since I learned about two flowing wells near Middletown, Indiana. I posted about them in June, and a variation of “Cunningham’s Law” led me to a third just a thousand feet away from the first. A Facebook friend reminded me about it during those dreary days after Christmas, and I finally decided to go out and see it.
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I’ve been hunting flowing wells across East-Central Indiana for a while now. The allure of the unknown, an adrenaline rush, and the sense of accomplishment I get once I find one turn my mundane trips into alluring adventures! I found five in Richmond’s Glen Miller Park in July, and my most recent exploit took me back to the Rose City in search of another at Springwood Park.
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Despite its unconventional name, Glen Miller Park in Richmond has nothing to do with the famous bandleader who spelled his name with two Ns. Sometime after the civil war, Col. John F. Miller purchased a glen, or valley, to turn into a park. Miller sold the property to the city of Richmond in 18851. Although the place is home to fascinating history, I went there specifically for its artesian wells, known around Richmond as “springs.”
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Aside from occasional digging or a ride in a golf cart, my trips to flowing wells are usually pretty sedate. I roll up, hop out, take a picture, and, usually, take a swig! That said, it was a different experience tracking down two wells just east of Perkinsville in western Madison County last week: the trek involved traversing abandoned roads, blazing a path through the forest, and wrangling a Gator down a fifty-foot slope to the White River’s banks.
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Whether it’s the sound of a babbling brook or the sight of waves crashing on a shoreline, the presence of flowing water can calm the mind and provide a sense of peace. It does for me, at least, but brooks and waves aren’t common around these parts. That’s why I love artesian wells! In addition to all the others I’ve talked about, I’ve been to two in northeastern Henry County, Indiana that sit about three miles apart.
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I wrote about a pair of artesian wells in Madison County a few Saturdays ago and headed to Mounds State Park to take photos and video of two more I knew of the day after. I found another the following Monday and another on Tuesday. When it rains, it pours! I love artesian wells, but my hobby of finding them was dormant until the past couple of weeks. Today, I’ll show you the two I uncovered -one literally- in northern Madison County, along with where I think a third one used to sit.
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I’ll never forget stumbling across my first artesian well. It felt as though I’d come across a biblical miracle! After I learned what they were, I made it my mission to track down all of them around East Central Indiana. Eventually, that trek took me to Madison County. I’ve found three there so far, but we’ll talk about two of them today.
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I’ve heard different explanations of how Spartanburg’s flowing well came to be. Usually, I find conflicting sources frustrating to reconcile, but I’m glad that two theories exist since they represent about 200% more information than what I’ve heard about the other wells I’ve been to. I’ll take it!
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I’ll never forget the first time I came across a flowing well and I’ve been fascinated by them ever since. After finding eleven in Delaware County, I started branching out to other nearby places. I stumbled across one in Hancock County a couple years ago and visited another nearby just the other day.
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In the 1940s and 50s, longtime Muncie newspaper columnist Dick Greene and his wife Mildred identified eight flowing wells within Delaware County, Indiana. They made trips to write about each of them1. I was seventy years late to the game when I tried to follow their path! I’ve found eleven flowing wells in Delaware County at the time of this writing, but two more exist just out of bounds near Matthews in Grant County.
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