This well and a nearby spring were the first sources of municipal water service provided to the town of Gettysburg.

In 1822 the Gettysburg Water Company acquired this property along with the well and spring, and channeled the water to their reservoir atop the hill near the intersection of E. High and Stratton Streets. Distribution from the reservoir throughout the town was accomplished by way of buried wooden pipe fashioned from bored-out logs, "grooved to fit at the ends." (See original section in the rear of this well foundation.)

In 1860 a small frame structure was constructed over the well which was replaced in the early 1870's wit ha new and larger "tasteful building."

By the mid-1890's nearby Marsh Creek had replaced this and other local wells as Gettysburg's principal source of water. At about this time, Mr. Robert Caldwell acquired the lot and built the brick home (to your left), incorporating the spring in its cellar and dismantling the old well building.

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