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[joebanks]

Middleburg Hts. Ohio. May/2009

A year ago, the park system expanded into a wetland area someways behind our house. A trail was built connecting two small lakes, three miles apart. Something that was revealed after the construction, though i doubt many people have noticed, is the remains of whatever this was. The water is lying in a ditch or channel that was dug some 20 or 30 feet from a stream. At some point in time, heavy planks were pounded into the edge of the ditch; they are visible rising out of the water, like rotten teeth. I have no idea what this once was, though it must have been important, because it was a lot of work to drive those planks into the muck. A water trough has been suggested, but with a creek and lowlands all around, why construct a water trough? A spring house? The water isn't what you would want to put your milk jugs in. It's age is anyones guess, there was still a farms here 50 years ago, 100 years? No idea.

Comments

[sahlah.livejournal.com]

That's a neat find. Does anyone in your Park Service know what it is?

[beoj.livejournal.com]

No, i wouldn't know who to ask, from my dealings with the park; they seem more nature oriented (which is fine) and so so much interested in the historical.