*Hat-top to commenter “Wanderer” on NTPL #237
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April 27th, 2009 at 8:02 pm
How deep is the water or could you tell?
April 28th, 2009 at 12:46 pm
Hi. These pictures of the Cave-In are beautiful. I’m an admin for the Illinois Bureau of Tourism’s Flickr page at EnjoyIllinois.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/enjoyillinois/
We’d like to share your pictures with our followers. Would you be up to showing them on our page? We’ll of course give you full credit and link viewers back to your blog. We hope you say yes!
Thanks,
Roland
April 29th, 2009 at 8:35 pm
Josh, when I was there (I made prior posts in this blog and the NameThisPeoriaLandmark blog as Wanderer and Ryder) the water didn’t look to be deeper than a few inches (maybe a foot at most). Of course there was debris in the tunnel from the cave in which covered some of the water flowing beneath it. The spring was still flowing though, I could hear it through the drainage pipe below the metal door.
Just a funny note, along with the metal chain on the door, someone had put a purple bicycle chain on the door too. Looked a little odd.
April 29th, 2009 at 8:40 pm
PeoriaIllinoisan – Did it look like old stone stairway from the MLK sidewalk had been broken up and removed from your prior visit? When I found the Mineral Springs there really didn’t look to be much of the stairway left.
April 29th, 2009 at 9:26 pm
Scio – I thought there was a stone stairway also but I haven’t dug through my photos yet to say for sure. As I recall, the water in the tunnel was usually a foot or more deep before the cave-in. Just in front of the old door is a miniature manhole cover (for lack of a better word) which you can remove to see and feel the spring water flowing into a drainage pipe.
April 30th, 2009 at 3:01 pm
As I was looking for a few places on Google Maps today, I noticed that if you type in “Peoria Mineral Springs, Peoria, IL” and then click on the “Street View” it will take you right to a pic from MLK Dr. of the stairs to the Mineral Springs that used to be there. Wonder what happened to them.