Big Spring current image

Fri Apr 19 15:51:57 EDT 2019

A very nice, recent article about the 169 year old Big Spring Mill in Elliston. Lots of history included.     John Garner

https://www.roanoke.com/business/news/montgomery_county/milling-a-southern-tradition-big-spring-mill-hitting-years/article_588fa4ff-6f69-5dc5-a8ec-a642a6999a6a.html

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Sent: Friday, April 19, 2019 12:00 PM
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Bud,

An elderly (but quite spry) Elliston lady advised me that the town’s water supply now comes from a source up on the mountain east of the spring due to the spring’s water becoming unfit.

Mike Pierry, Jr.

On Fri, Apr 19, 2019 at 10:31 AM NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org <mailto:nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> > wrote:

I have seen this road-side view of the “The” Big Spring for more than 70 years passing by it on Route 11.  Didn’t realize until today that this was the Big Spring.  With the concrete walls and all, what was the use of the spring—a source of water, or what?

Bud Jeffries

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Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2019 10:38 PM

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Subject: RE: Big Spring current image

Yes, nice work Mike.

Mr. Thompson is standing about a quarter mile downstream from the spring itself. Here is a google, road-side view of the spring.   <https://goo.gl/maps/KexCpS6d8QzvUbiC7> https://goo.gl/maps/KexCpS6d8QzvUbiC7

You can see some of the stone retaining wall that’s shown in the postcard.

John Garner

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Subject: Big Spring current image

We stoped in Elliston this afternoon and 

met Jim Thompson who owns Big Spring and was knowledgeable about the watercress going to market. He was gracious enough to let me take his picture. Also, I went about 500 feet north and shot where a local road crosses the tracks and a small building with a “salvaged” Train Station sign.

A small bridge over a creek should nail down the location for any trainmen that traversed this route.

Mike Pierry, Jr.

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