An Old Spring at Glennstone Preserve

Just down the hill from the remains of a summer cottage, next to a rocky creek, is the remains of a spring where the owners of the cottage must have gotten their water. A small pipe sticks out of this half circle of stone, near the bottom. The ground there is consistently wet, but I've never seen water actually flowing out of the pipe. Perhaps there's a way to clean out the spring and allow it to flow again.

Within a few feet of the spring grows a JoePyeWeed, a tall wildflower found nowhere else in the preserve. Apparently, the stable water source allowed the plant to survive droughts.