Wow! None of the other videos I've watched about Browning Mountain have mentioned, let alone showed, the well. How cool is that? Thanks for that extra little treat!
That's beautiful! I noticed visitors have been kind to the area, no trash. Would love to have a small home and land in that area. Maybe my next lifetime.
Pretty cool, we use to do this when I was a younger man in Ky, we called it Tramping. Odd that a well was dug on that kind of elevation. Who could have known they would even hit water 900 feet up in the clouds. Great video
@@MrTonyPiscatelle I have come to find out from an old timer who I talked to that it was a water cistern, not a well. The owner had water trucked up to the cistern and filled. Crazy.
There was an old man, a hermit that lived on the hill. My best friends Grandpa, who lived in the area, would take the man flour, sugar and other goods a few times per year. The ponds were made by the US forest service for fire lakes. It is a neat area, salt creek has some good fishing between there and Monroe.
Elkinsville is easy to get to. Just go to Story, IN and drive west of town following Elkinsville Rd. There are some signs of the old town but not many. Some of the surrounding woods has a few foundations and other signs of former habitation but you really have to explore around and look closely for most of them.
Wow! None of the other videos I've watched about Browning Mountain have mentioned, let alone showed, the well. How cool is that? Thanks for that extra little treat!
That's beautiful! I noticed visitors have been kind to the area, no trash. Would love to have a small home and land in that area. Maybe my next lifetime.
Nice video man!
Pretty cool, we use to do this when I was a younger man in Ky, we called it Tramping. Odd that a well was dug on that kind of elevation. Who could have known they would even hit water 900 feet up in the clouds. Great video
@@MrTonyPiscatelle I have come to find out from an old timer who I talked to that it was a water cistern, not a well. The owner had water trucked up to the cistern and filled. Crazy.
@@psycho_one_golf AH Ha moment ...LOL
Thank you for this video. I love being on and around Monroe Lake
There was an old man, a hermit that lived on the hill. My best friends Grandpa, who lived in the area, would take the man flour, sugar and other goods a few times per year. The ponds were made by the US forest service for fire lakes. It is a neat area, salt creek has some good fishing between there and Monroe.
I always heard those ponds were there to begin with. The residents called them bear wallows
Was the hermit Roscoe Hays?
Looks like a gorgeous hike! Have you made it from Browning Mountain to Bad Hollow?
Do you know of any way to reach the site of Elkinsville? Or are there any remains of old houses still left?
Elkinsville is easy to get to. Just go to Story, IN and drive west of town following Elkinsville Rd. There are some signs of the old town but not many. Some of the surrounding woods has a few foundations and other signs of former habitation but you really have to explore around and look closely for most of them.