Old Spring House with Weather Vane in the snow
by Edward Fielding
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Old Spring House with Weather Vane in the snow
Artist
Edward Fielding
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Photograph - Photography
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Note: the watermark in the lower right does not appear in the final print.
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An old octagon shaped spring house with colorful roof and weathervane. Musterfield Farm, North Sutton, New Hampshire. Fine art photography by Edward M. Fielding - www.edwardfielding.com
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History tells us that the spring was first heard of by white men in 1770, when some of them passing that way saw a group of Indians encamped with their sick around the "big medicine water" as they called it.
It was about 1844 that General Samuel Andrews of Hillsborough moved to Bradford Springs about one mile from East Washington Village and in 1858 built the "Bradford Springs Hotel" which he called "The Hermitage", a house one hundred by forty feet, and had it furnished and opened for business in 10 weeks.
Mr. McCoy continued to operate the Hotel only a few years after the turn of the century. He was followed by one or two others, including a Mr. Lunt, but the enterprise was not longer profitable financially and the property stood idle for a long time. Eventually, Mr. Lunt sold the furnishings at auction and had the buildings torn down by a wrecking company to avoid further payment of taxes. The only remaining structure was the octagonal Spring House, even the lake was gone. Today the passing motorist would have no hint of the popular resort that once flourished there.
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