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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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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My posts sometimes serve as distress flares I fire off to social media when I’m looking for more information about a topic. I recently shared one about two flowing wells near Yorktown, hoping someone would pipe up and tell me about one I’d heard existed near West Muncie and Gas Lake. Last week, someone did, even inviting me to come out and it in her backyard. Mission accomplished!
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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’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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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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With the power to calm and soothe a restless soul, flowing water brings a sense of clarity and focus to a chaotic mind- at least it does for me. That’s a big part of the reason that I love flowing artesian wells! Last week, 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. I know of four more within a five mile radius of it.
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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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