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Along this path leading to the left is the site of an old natural spring, which is believed to be the original source of water for the Main House. Enslaved servants would have filled buckets and carried them up the hill to the house to fill pots and basins.
An enslaved worker named Hubbard, who was described as “a fine bricklayer,” was purchased by Joseph Allen sometime after 1850. Hubbard was tasked with constructing a brick opening around the mouth of this spring, and is also responsible for laying the brick walkways around the house and the battercake express path which leads from the main house to the kitchen building.
