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Edgewood
the Spring-house

The ruins of a springhouse on the (now former portion of the) Edgewood property.  We believe this is most likely the springhouse mentioned in Two Little Knights of Kentucky. This would be the springhouse by the cabin where the boys left Jonesy and the bear in Two Little Knights of Kentucky

The ruins are beside the small creek that runs through the Edgewood Manor subdivision and would have formerly been on the Edgewood property itself. You can see the rear of Edgewood easily from the ruins during the winter. (Photos taken Christmas 2004)  It would have been less easy to see before Edgewood was moved.  The spring-house was built with slave labor and brick was made on the property.

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Photos from all angles

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Nearby, behind Edgewood, are the ruins of the spring:

"She's tied to a tree down by the spring." answered Malcolm." We are just starting down there now to cut her loose. You see we were playing Indian, and she was tied up to be tortured, and we forgot all about her being there---"
                            --From Two Little Knights of Kentucky, Chapter 7, A Game of Indian

 

  
The Spring, an early photo by Kate Matthews and as it looks today

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This Site:
Home Page   What's New?   Biography of Annie Fellows Johnston,   
Books on Line
  (Complete Original Little Colonel Book Series)
    The Little Colonel (link to U. Penn))
   
The Giant Scissors
    Two Little Knights of Kentucky
    The Little Colonel's House Party
    The Little Colonel's Holidays
    The Little Colonel's Hero
    The Little Colonel at Boarding-School
    The Little Colonel in Arizona
    The Little Colonel's Christmas Vacation 
    The Little Colonel, Maid of Honor 
    The Little Colonel's Knight Comes Riding
 
    Mary Ware, The Little Colonel's Chum 
    Mary Ware in Texas  
    Mary Ware's Promised Land
          Check our home page for more titles by AFJ on other sites
The People & Characters:
The Little Colonel, Papa Jack and Mrs. Sherman,  The Old Colonel, Two Little Knights of Kentucky,  Two Little Knights of Kentucky(2), 
Uncle Sidney & Aunt Elise, parents of the Two Little Knights of Kentucky, Grandmother McIntyre, Aunt Allison, The Waltons, Rob and Anna Moore, Betty, Joyce Ware, Jack WareMom Beck, Walker, Katherine Marks, Gay Melville, The Lees of Arizona, Small Parts
Their Final Resting Places

The Places:
in Pewee (Lloydsboro) Valley: Map, Map 2, Where it all began, The Locust, The Beeches  Edgewood, The Little Colonel's Cottage, The Railroad Station, "Lloydsboro Seminary", Clovercroft, The Post Office, Churches, The Haunted House at Hartwell Hollow,  Confederate Home Rollington, Minor Places In Old Louisville: The Culbertson Mansion, "Home of a Hero" Elsewhere: The Cuckoo's Nest (Indiana), Lee's Ranch, Camelback Mountain & Hole-in-Rock (Arizona), 
San Antonio and The Little Town of Bauer (Boerne), Texas, The Gate of the Giant Scissors (France)
Letters from Annie Fellows Johnston and "Mrs Walton"  
Scrapbook

Links
Cooking with The Little Colonel
Guest Book

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