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Ludowici Well, Ludowici, Georgia; Maka Yusota, Savage, Minnesota; McConnell Springs Park, Lexington, Kentucky; Olympia Brewery, Olympia, Washington (see Olympia Brewing Company#Use of artesian water) Polk Theater well, Lakeland, Florida; possibly used in the loop of the first air conditioning system in America; Pryor Avenue Iron Well, Milwaukee ...
An artesian well is a well that brings groundwater to the surface without pumping because it is under pressure within a body of rock or sediment known as an aquifer. [1] When trapped water in an aquifer is surrounded by layers of impermeable rock or clay, which apply positive pressure to the water, it is known as an artesian aquifer . [ 1 ]
Wiley's Well is a natural artesian well in the Colorado Desert of Southern California as well as the name of the surrounding region. It is west of Blythe, California , in Riverside County . It is named after Palo Verde storekeeper and postmaster A.P. Wiley who, in 1907, made a shallow well deeper that was dug in 1876 by a stagecoach company ...
Tourist attractions in California by county (61 C) Tourist attractions in California by populated place (35 C) Tourist attractions in Southern California (7 C, 2 P)
Urbita Springs pictured in Out West magazine, 1908. The hot water was believed to come from 600 feet (180 m) below ground. [8] According to an U.S. government survey of California springs first published in 1915, "About 1 mile south of San Bernardino a recreation park known as Urbita Hot Springs has been built about a group of artesian wells that yield thermal water.
Mercey Hot Springs (formerly Mercy Hot Springs) is an unincorporated community and historical hot springs resort in the Little Panoche Valley of Fresno County, central California, [1] [2] about 60 miles (97 km) west-southwest of Fresno.
A book about California produced for the 1893 World's Fair reported, “[The town of Inglewood] is well-supplied with water from the celebrated Centinela springs, which is distributed by gravity, all over the townsite through an elaborate system of pipes.” [10] More wells were dug in 1895: “Mr. D. Freeman has just completed two wells north ...
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) University of Southern California (USC) Upper Las Virgenes Canyon Open Space Preserve; Urban Light; U.S. Bank Tower (Downtown) USS Iowa Museum (San Pedro/Port of Los Angeles)