While scouting the Pine Creek within the North Park perimeter this weekend our advanced team discovered the location of the "Fountain of Youth."
According to the preserved history, "the natural stone grotto built around a popular spring in North Park, inscribed with the motto "Fountain of Youth" on the archway. When the golf course nearby fixed the leaks in its irrigation system, the Fountain of Youth dried up, but the grotto remains."
It is just one of those cool places you come across hidden in the woods that livens your interest in local history and stokes and provokes the imagination. The entrance backs up into the hillside and when you get close you can still hear water inside and also the little feet of creatures... Further scouting will need to be approved by command. The nice thing about this ruin is that it was still intact with no signs of vandals, beer drinkers or cave bears. Will provide further reports as they come in from the field...
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