Fort Harrod Spring
These pictures show two settler children drawing drinking water from a spring inside the walls of Fort Harrod. A permanent source of drinking water was critical to a fort. During times of siege, when the settlers could not leave the fort, they had to have a readily available source of water for drinking, cooking, putting out fires, and other uses. Over time, though, a spring inside a fort would become very polluted by animal waste and settlers’ refuse.
Spring Photographs
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