The building you see here is the old J. Correll Spring House. In the background, you see the home of J. Correll.

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A spring house was a small building, although this one is rather large, used to keep water from an underground spring clear of leaves and debris. The structure was also used like a large refrigerator - it was cooler than outside because of the fresh spring water, so food stayed unspoiled a bit longer in there.

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Just across the road (Silver Spring) was a "Lime Kiln".  A kiln is an oven that gets very hot - over 1,000 degrees - and remains "on" for days at a time. You might be familiar with kilns that are used in ceramics for the making of pottery - it turns clay into "rock". A lime kiln was where they "burned" limestone to make it into quicklime - a key ingredient for making cement and mortar. It is also used for water treatment, and to make "white wash" - a cheap paint used very often many years ago. And it was used to process animal skin - by burning the hair off of hides. Some of you have used lime to sweeten your garden soil for your tomatoes.  There are no remains of the lime kiln here.  The photo is of one in the Saylorsburg area.

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At the stop sign you will be making a left onto Kunkletown Road (east).  Please exercise extreme care in turning onto Kunkletown Road, you will be entering the roadway in a “blind spot” of eastbound traffic.  Be safe!