Reighard Memorial Spring, Duboistown

The Reighard Memorial Spring, Duboistown

Located along the old "Nisbet Highway", rt 654, between Duboistown & Nisbet, is a road side spring fountain.  The mountain stone monument replaced the former Cochran water trough.

 The Reighard Memorial Spring

Presented by 

Duboistown Civic Leagues

1955

In the early 1950's, the Cochran Water Trough along the Duboistown-Nisbet Highway, was an "unsightly collection of mud holes, and anything but an addition to the roadside scenery"

According to the article in the Williamsport Gazette, "motorists have misued the location to wash cars."

In June of 1954, the property was purchased by Joseph A Reighard

In August of 1954, the civic league announced plans to remove the trough and replace it with a mountain stone drinking fountain. The land near the site, and back into the mountain where the water supply is located, was to be cleaned out.

The highway department planned to plant bushes around the spring, and signs would be posted warning motorists to not wash their cars there.  State police were being asked to watch for "violators" and anyone caught washing their car there would be prosecuted.

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"About the year 1852, while removing some loose stone from around the base of a large rock near the Big spring, a short distance from DuBoistown, the workmen, when at a depth of several feet, found a large quantity of arrow and spear heads placed under a shelf of the rock. In 1879, while digging a trench near the site of the Indian village, the workmen found a long, slender stone imbedded in the earth, standing upright, with the top near the surface. It bore the appearance of having been rudely dressed. About two feet below the surface a grooved stone axe was found by its side. They excavated around the stone to the depth of about four feet, and then broke it off. It had probably been placed there by the Indians to mark the site of some great event, or in memory of some fallen hero." - History of Lycoming County by John F. Meginness; ©1892

June 14, 1954

March 15 1952

August 7, 1954

Williamsport Sun Gazette