Some more squiggly lines in a 1934 aerial photo get my attention, mostly because a town crew just "improved" the drainage of a culvert. Quite a few dump trucks full of material were excavated in a day long project. Were stones removed? I don't really know, but it's possible. It's a spot that's been disturbed before, the nameless stream rerouted for the road, as well as to "improve" (drain) the cornfield across from it, sometime after 1892. The old and probably not very accurate map shows the stream in it's former and possibly original position...
And I'm going to name this little water feature "Rock Shelter Sprane (Spring)" because it originates as a stone bordered spring up by a possible rock shelter site and "Sprane" sounds so old-timey...
By the 1950's the sprane disappears from the map, but it's really still there, routed into culverts passing under the state highway and my road, filling ponds and running through ditches on the "improved" landscape, all new adventures for this spring, yet with remnants of its original "improvement" visible, a old scheme written in stone, other portions perhaps buried by natural processes over time...
Here's a photo of the area "improved" the other day...
And a totally complicated one with all my additions...
Some photos of what's left by the roadside:
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