This page will feature a variety of springs and springhouses that I have visited. I have documented and photographed more than 700 springs all over the state. Springs have been used as water supply sources, both domestic and agricultural, ever since the pioneer era, and I am fascinated by the many different ways in which people have modified them for use.
The Abraham Buford springhouse is among the finest springhouses of all the hundreds of springhouses that I have seen in Kentucky. Buford settled on large grant in Scott County in 1792 and built the large brick house known as Richland, seen in the background of the photograph. This house is
Here I am recording information about the spring that is the source for Drake’s Creek in Hardin County, Kentucky. This is a spring of the artesian type, boiling up to form a “blue hole” spring Kentucky is a land of springs. There are thousands of springs dotted across the state,