• Blubaugh Spring House

    No information survives about Harvey Devoe’s spring house. It could have been similar to this spring house, which originally served the Blubaugh family. It is now on display at the Knox County Agricultural Museum in Mount Vernon.

  • Trough

    Inside the spring house, a water trough would collect ground-temperature spring water. Crocks and other containers with perishable goods could be kept submerged in the water to preserve it with natural refrigeration.

  • Large milk cans could be kept at the deep end of the trough, either for use by the farm family, or for brief storage until they were carted to a dairy.

  • The upper floor houses dairy processing tools such as this cream separator and a butter churn.

  • The upper level, being opened here by David Greer, was added to the structure because the cooling effect of the spring waters below made the upper floor a cool work space for activities such as butter churning. ()