Three artesian wells in Delaware County’s Harrison Township

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Flowing water offers a sense of calmness and tranquility, and its sound creates a peaceful atmosphere. That’s a big part of why I love artesian wells! A while back, we talked about the first artesian well I ever stumbled across, which sits about half of a mile west of the hamlet of Granville in northern Delaware County. A week later, we talked about four more I knew of in northeastern Delaware County. Today, we’ll visit three more: all of them are within a quick, ten-minute drive of one another in Harrison Township.

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The artesian well at Granville, Indiana

Read time: 6 min.

I’ll never forget the first time I stumbled across a flowing artesian well.  It was midnight and I was twenty, fresh off a shift at my call center job. No twenty-year-old wants to stagger home and hit the sack right after work, so in those days I’d go explore the countryside by car. One night, with no idea where I was, I slowly crossed an iron bridge and found myself staring at a pair of enormous boulders that -I swear- had water spewing out of them. At that moment, I felt as though I had stumbled upon a biblical miracle.

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