Grotto Spring 1909

Description:	Front: Script in lower right corner reads, Grotto Spring, Winona Lake, Ind.Back: Body of message reads, Ruth and Gladys Nills, My dear little grand daughters. This as First day we attended a Sabbath school at the auditorium and their meeting of Friends at 10. Had our dinner at half past 12. Victoria and her two children are now here visiting with Elizabeth and the rest of the Nills on the porch and I thought I would come upstairs and get a postal ready to mail tomorrow morning. Everything is at a stand-still here today. Not a boat on the lake nor a train to stop. Every one wants to go they gun go with h[...] and buggy and ants. Love to all affectionately thy grandmother M.E.P. Addressed to, Ruth Lucile Nills, McNabb, Illinois. The Grotto Spring is located on the north side of the Twelfth Street Hill adjacent to the Billy Sunday Home. The builder is unkown. It is a large open subterranean room made from native field stone in a circular shape. The water flows out via a concrete spillway and then passes under a small bridge also made of native field stone. At one time gold fish called the center pool home. The Town of Winona Lake filled in the Grotto Springs in the 1980s. The spring water found a new route and destroyed the pavement on the Twelfth Street Hill. The gravel was removed and the Grotto was somewhat restored. The Grotto is still a part of Winona Lake, but is showing its age.
Origin:	1909-08-21
Source:	http://palni.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15705coll8/id/427
Collection:	Grace College - Winona Lake Postcards
Copyright:	Contact Morgan Library, Winona Lake, IN for copy and usage permissions
Geography:	Winona Lake (Ind.)
Subjects:	Grotto Spring

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