Oddities at Gettysburg

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Does anyone know what this thing is? It's very near the source of Plum Run south of the Codori Farm and west of the Pennsylvania Monument. Coordinates: 39.807778, -77.239250. I've never come across any reference to this thing in what I've read about the battlefield. It's not deep like a well. Thanks in advance.
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By the way, a lot of battlefield "oddities" have been explained by an old friend, Randy Drais. I recommend his website:


Incidentally, we went looking (unsuccessfully) for the "WARD" rock (associated with a 4th Alabama soldier) on one occasion, and also found (we think) the "X" rock (associated with Watson's battery), both of which he describes.
 
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Would also mention that there were miles of underground water pipes and drinking and washing facilities installed for the grand 1913 Reunion of the veterans from both sides. They came in handy in the sweltering heat.

Per Wikipedia: "Water wells were being drilled for the July encampment by February 1, 1913,[15]"


 
By the way, a lot of battlefield "oddities" have been explained by an old friend, Randy Drais. I recommend his website:


Incidentally, we went looking (unsuccessfully) for the "WARD" rock (associated with a 4th Alabama soldier) on one occasion, and also found (we think) the "X" rock (associated with Watson's battery), both of which he describes.
Yes, I love that website. I'm hoping to see many of those lesser known spots. I was looking at stones very close to the Spangler Spring and saw one with what looked like indistinct graffiti, probably not from a veteran. I couldn't make it out, though.
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On the family farm, there was an unused and dry concrete livestock tank on a little rise about 10 yards from where a spring bubbled up through the ground. The spring water didn't seep - it came up through a standing pool in a stream that shot up above the surface of the water. You could lay flat, stretch out, and drink from that water, just as if it was a drinking fountain!
I was told that the spring previously came out of the ground inside that concrete water tank and filled it, but then the water found an easier way to emerge.
That water was clear, sweet and cool. There were crayfish in that pool, and when I went there from the hayfield, I could enjoy that water and watch those crayfish.
Since this is close to the source of a stream, maybe it was built to capture and collect that water at the source.
 
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