While visiting the North House Museum in Lewisburg, I asked about the small building located in the General Andrew Lewis Park. Now, I have driven past this area for the last four years and never stopped. So, after receiving a brief history lesson I drove to the park to take some photos.
The Lewis Spring, located at the General Andrew Lewis Park, is a little historical stone building near the Greenbrier County Courthouse. The barely elf-sized structure, erected 170 years ago, encloses a bubbling spring which once was extremely important to the early settlers of Lewisburg.
The Lewis spring is now unused, and has virtually been forgot by nearly everyone except the older residents. But the cold mountain water, flowing in an unending stream, was once the focal point around which the Lewisburg pioneers built their log cabins and later Fort Savannah.
The spring was discovered and named by Andrew Lewis and his father around 1750 while surveying for a land company. This earliest and highly significant landmark has long had its waters condemned as unsafe for drinking; the door to the spring house has been padlocked.
I just wonder how many other residents drive by and never stop to visit the General Andrew Lewis Park and take a look at the Lewis spring house....a significant Lewisburg landmark!
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