Show WELL DUG BY washington IN USE AFTER YEARS water still B being el taken from brorn hole he drilled drilled in 1756 winchester va wa bingdons bing tons well in the 1 l ie four month drought that threat enad such serious consequences to tile the shenandoah valley did not tall fall in the mission intended for it by the then lien col co george washington constructor construct Dr commandant of fort louden WIne winchester hester in 1750 with the french i and indians indian moving slowly from thi the N het pat winchester t then lien tin nn outpost ot of it elihli Jl NIhil ihli vs avas threatened jonel washington afterward 4 venech I 1 and pt shenew a re riville rii ille was ordeley hv hutsen ten eral lou ln ln in cliplef of alie eng losli of america to c construct onster net a fori A ir liin of if the thieun iiii iii liy by ane Is still in I 1 i ond ahe line of the fort Is trace able within the boundaries oun darles are situated the foit louden seminary tind ond a cumbe erpf of pravate homes in the yard of a home rent hect to the seminary Is the washington well ivell no grefer greater mapu nafia ment meat to taht american av hero can tie be 1 v t found the vi well ell Is fiet feet dap through solid gohd I 1 18 about 11 to 4 feet acet IP J and ch done by haid adf no evan gEp was used 1 so 66 engineer have hare lit the right aright tem tein per iier for the thestal e from his old home tit nf I 1 sunt U vernon his Tiya fh firo 0 record of law bb eq fe E cirg the well not mo reban ahr three or ir tout fo 11 months at the most the history ot of winchester records that for iga years the old wall well has continual functioned and has biever been beeb polluted A short time ago in placing a concrete cover over the top of the lie welt during the excavation thee was t 1 ds daig put out a f four our inch solid cannon ball of charcoal iron As the furnace at md ald wits was the only bidy furnace making tills this class of metal prior to the revolution it Is reas reasonable anable to suppose that washington obtained his armament from till this place owned by his two uncles where as s a young man he had studied d the lie gijun ma of iron |