Caldwell County MO Archives History .....AN OLD KINGSTON SPRING 
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AN OLD KINGSTON SPRING
	Narrator:  Bert Clevenger of Kingston

    During the hard rains of the spring of 1935, a spring came to light in 
Kingston after lying dormant for over 40 years.
     Bert Clevenger, an old citizen there, tells of its earlier appearance in 
the same place years ago.  In 1935, it broke out gradually in the middle of 
the gravel street in Kingston, two blocks east of the county jail.  It came up 
from somewhere in the center of the present D.T. Hilliard home and it 
certainly caused a mean spot.  Motorists inevitably had trouble there, and a 
red flag was put up by the town to warn people where the mushy places were.
     Mr. Clevenger says that this same spring caused just as much trouble in 
the horse and buggy days of the 80s, in wet spells by water seeping through up 
to the road-surface.  Once he says there were 50 loads of rock put on the spot 
and more at other times, but the rock simply sank down in the mud with no 
effect.  Cattle and horses were mired, and even a dog could not walk over it 
without going down into the mire.  At that time, old people remembered that it 
acted exactly so in wet spells in the 70s.
     This bad place in spring of 1935 was 10 or 12 feet wide, and beyond that, 
the ground was firm, which was also the case in earlier appearances of the 
spring.  In the 90s when it came back, the town fathers discussed sinking a 
well there, draining the well, and then they would cover it with concrete' but 
when they got ready to carry out their plan, the flow of the spring stopped 
and it was not needed.
     Interview  1935.


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