Arrow Rock Big Spring House - Arrow Rock, Missouri
Posted by: BruceS
N 39° 04.065 W 092° 56.673
15S E 504796 N 4324296
Important spring along the Santa Fe Trail in Arrow Rock, Missouri.
Waymark Code: WM1EQD
Location: Missouri, United States
Date Posted: 04/22/2007
Views: 53
Big Spring in Arrow Rock was important along the Santa Fe Trail in the 1820's. The travelers starting in Franklin would ferry across the Missouri River at Arrow Rock and filled their water barrels at this spring before heading further west along the trail. The development of the spring house was done during the Great Depression by the Works Progress Administration (WPA). The spring continues to flow.