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The Eubank spring-house & well This just in from JIM. Praise the Lord and pass the paper! (The Adair County News newspaper!), the revered Oracle of Ohio has not gone On Hiatus or into Hibernation yet, as he's warned might occur. Yet. This is a dandy, coinciding with Mayor Mark D. Harris epic achievement, the reconstruction of the Historically named Well Walk of the Square, his plans for a glorious use for Adams Alley - the pedestrian gateway to Lindsey Wilson College - and the absolutely fascinating archeological revelations found by City Consulting Engineer Greg Eastham in the reconstruction process. This story ties right into the Well Walk, to Lilburn Roy's great new Dr. Pepper Book, our Bottling Plant heritage, and Columbia's long wait for the resurrection of the Eubank Springs springhouse. Ever the pragmatic realist, JIM prophesizes this reconstruction as the catalyst to bring in those elusive Canadian Tour Busses! -CM By JIM The recent articles and photographs concerning Columbia's Well Walk brought to mind a somewhat related tidbit about a nearby (but now sadly long-since dismantled) landmark of the town. The article appeared in the October 5, 1898 News: It is the opinion of our older citizens that the rock spring-house, owned by Mr. R.C. Eubank, was built more than one hundred years ago. It has been recovered a number of times, but the same rafters are yet in use. About two years later (late August, 1900), the News, in a writeup about Mr. R.C. Eubank, spoke thus of the spring-house & its sparkling waters: In olden times there was a deer lick near his spring, and it was given out by the first settlers of this country and the information retained by succeeding generations, that many deer were killed at this place, and the spring was a camping point for Indians and the first hunters of this country. The stone spring-house was built after the country was settled, more than one hundred years ago. It is now in a perfect state of preservation. The spring is a bold stream and Mr. Eubank says it will furnish water for a hundred more years if the water does not run away. He is not expecting to be here when it runs dry, but as long as he lives he will keep up his adopted custom of visiting it every morning, and lifting a goblet passing it to a friend, saying: "This is sparkling water, the beverage prepared by God himself to nourish and to invigorate his creatures and to beautify their footstool; and thus you see its countless drops unite and blend in one, so we may as one unruffled stream blot out the stains of black intemperance." There was perhaps more truth to Mr. Eubank's words than he knew. In early 1920, his son, Sam F. Eubank, sunk a deep well near the old Eubank Shop, not far removed from the spring, "finding a bold stream of water, perhaps the coldest in town." After several people had tried the water and declared it to have medicinal properties, S.F. sent a bottle of it to the University of Kentucky for analysis. The report came back stating that "The water was distinctly alkaline and contained a large amount of carbonates, also alkaline sulphate and carbonate of lime, magnesia and soda." It will be remembered that in 1919, Nell & Son bought an old blacksmith shop near where the the spring-house was located (and where the well was sunk in 1920) and converted it into a bottling plant. One must wonder if the popularity of their products were related to the quality of the the water. At any rate, with the newly redone Well Walk, were the spring-house rebuilt, the bottling plant reopened, and the spring-house waters bottled up for sale, Canadian tour busses would line up from here to yander. The Eubank Spring-house, awaiting Resurrection day Compiled by that noblest of researchers, JIM This story was posted on 2011-11-14 11:11:17
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