I remember pop always talking to his friend about the old spring house on his property...I wish I had checked it out before it collapsed. Excellent example sir. Thanks for the education. - Surry Virginia

I remember asking my mother how they kept their butter and milk cold and she said down in the spring. I wish I had thought to ask more details but foolishly I didn’t. I love the setup of this spring house. Thank you for showing us another fine example of ingenuity. Makes one wonder if these old ways will be coming back with everything going on in the world today.

Wait! You mean a spring house ain't where you live in the spring? Best place in the world to nap on a hot August day is the spring house. God Bless y'all.

The springhouse video was very interesting. My mother and father kept milk and butter under a little bridge where a little brook or stream runs near our house. It brings back memories of my Mother taking down fresh butter to the stream for cooling. Your stories are stirring up lots of happy memories for me Justro. All the best from Paddy in Ireland.

I love that the spring house was so well planed out. Thank you

My husband had fond memories of the spring house he grew up with. They had a similar multi-level trough except it went down the middle of the space, and they kept bushels of apples, potatoes, squash and other produce on a platform on one side, and had shelves on the other side. They would sit their fresh milk in the running water to quick-cool it. It was built into the hillside with three sides covered by the hill.

Howdy Justro- that spring house was well thought out. Over here in our part of the world I’ve not seen any spring houses at all. There may be some remnants of some up where they had springs but folks around here bout all had a well. My Daddy said they would let there butter and cream down in the well in a bucket to keep it cool. Hope y’all have a great weekend. God bless y’all

My grandmother had one of the old ones. I remember playing with little lizards that would be around the rocks that lined hers

We had one of these in Northern California up until the 1970's when the spring dried up.

I guess the spring dried up on that one... I'm an odd one, because I'd love me a spring house.

I'd love to have building plans for that. With the inflation today it would be nice to have an alternative fridge in case yours break's and you can't afford a new one for awhile

Love the Hollar's . Ben seems really talented with metal working & machinery . Love Meg's cooking videos. Good folks

Such a well set up spring house. Thank you for the tour and God bless. 😊

That's a first for me ..I never seen anything like that .People come up with all kinds of stuff..thanks for showing this to us ...

That was a great design for a springhouse. Shows how you could still make one for use today. I love Ben and Meg I've been watching them since they started videos and left California. Great example of a couple that didn't give up on each other and grew the whole family closer together by getting back to the basics and loving one another. Keep up the good work and God bless you all

Congrats on reaching 10000 subs!! 🥳 You really are blowing up, and for good reason! 😊 The world needs educators now more than ever like you, Billy, Ben and all the rest! Thank you, Thank you. Cheers to the community grain mill and ur dream as a whole! 💕

The mill is not only functional but a work of art! There’s no one like you Justro♥️God bless and thank you for sharing this with us. 👍🏻

Thank you for the tour of the old spring house. Very interesting. We enjoyed every minute. Amazing how people back then made life easier even without electricity . Look forward to your next video.your friends in middle Tennessee bill and dory

Thank you so very much Justin for sharing this piece of history. Man those old timers really knew how to survive! That spring house is brilliant!!!! I love history & old stuff!! 🙏🏻😇👍🏻🙌🏻❤️😊

I’m a newbie to the spring house world and this is one of the nicest set ups I’ve seen so far. I’m not thinking I’ll see one better. Thanks for the great video!

I'm in my fifties . When I was a kid my grandparents had a spring house here in Indiana .

Very fond memories of hot summer's days, going into my great grand daddy's spring house, taking down the ladle and getting a drink of cold water. Nothing compares to spring house water! Really enjoyed this and have followed The Hollar Homestead for years. Just like you all, good folk! Blessings Abound.

I love that spring house! I wish I had one. That’s awesome that Ben helped you with the mill. I love the Hollars, especially little Buggie 😊❤️

That is a Cadillac of a springhouse. Very fine indeed.

How cool! I enjoyed this video, Justro. I've been following the Hollar's since they set out in search of property for their homestead, they are a great family to watch!

I want one now ❤!!! Very cool working spring house. Fancy

I’ve had many drinks of water out of that spring when Sue was alive.❤

That is so cool! I read about the old timey spring houses in Foxfire and the few pics I saw were as you described, built into the side of the hill where the spring was. The other structure that was interesting was the smoke house. Anyhow, thank you for showing us this spring house! Take care everyone.

Oh wow! That's so cool! I just loved seeing that set up! Wonderful ingenuity. Our ancestors used the basic resources to fill ALL of the daily needs with zero waste and zero pollution. Examples for us all!

How wonderfully ingenious! Years ago I saw a tour of Willard Scott’s ( tv weatherman) home in Virginia. He had his home built in a way that the spring could be accessed by lifting a trap door inside his home! Cold clean water and refrigeration! Love your fun fact Friday’s ♥️👍🏻God bless!

Dandy spring house. Thank you.

Thanks for the springhouse tour. My parents put their milk cans in our spring which was a good little walk down behind our barn. We had a hand dug well a few feet behind our house then my parents had a drilled well done when I was 5 and run water to our kitchen only. We had an inside bathroom put in the next year. We also had a large ice box on our back porch. My daddy would haul loads of large blocks of ice from Murfreesboro, which was about 25 miles away, for us and some neighbors. We had a kerosene kitchen cook stove and a ringer washing machine. Some neighbors out the road from us had a very nice spring house behind their house which I saw many times as a child. Those are great memories! My daddy died when I was six years old and life changed then. Mama sold the cow and other farm animals, a lot of the farm property, bought a little old GE refrigerator, an electric kitchen stove and she operated our little country grocery/general store beside our house until I was grown and married when she got very sick with diabetes complications. She made many beautiful quilts.She died a few years later at the age of 66 from a stroke while living with me and my family. I was only 32 when she died. My son was 10 but my daughter was only 2 months. My son has some great memories of her though. My parents were great and I was very loved. I am very blessed! I just celebrated my 71st birthday. I know you had a wonderful family and many great memories because of the things you tell of them. Our mothers taught both of us many things. You are also blessed! I so enjoy watching you on KZfaq. I have also watched the Hollar Homestead for quite some time. Have a wonderful day!

That is the best spring house!

That's one 1st class spring house. I didn't realize that people had such elaborate spring houses.

Love the history of how people once lived. You give great details & I truly enjoy your videos.

I know Ben and Meg I've been following them before they left California. Hollar Homestead.

Thank you for the visit in the Spring house. I was just talking with a friend about how they were made. Wishing we had one! Have a blessed weekend.

That is technology that is being lost. I have never seen anything like that. Thank you for sharing. 🌻

I love the Hollers!

Awesome! Thank you, for sharing.

Thanks Justro, that's the nicest spring house I have ever seen.

News from the flatwoods of Tennessee I finally found a Allis G leaving in the morning to collect it. Spring houses were and are awesome things

It’s the ultimate spring house. Hoping to build one similar but smaller someday.

Wow! Had one of these at the farmhouse across the street in a building next to the stone farmhouse. I was told at 8 years old it was a spring fed milk house at one time. The building is a house now. The farmhouse was built by one of Daniel Boone's uncles. Daniel Boone was born about a half mile away from my home.

Yes! Ben Hollar is also a genius! He's just like you. He has Skills!!! Love the Hollar family! There just a little way up the road from where my farm is!!😊❤

Your mill is so pretty, Justro. What a blessing! Thanks for sharing all of these things so thoughtfully. You work very hard. God bless you every day. :)

That was a fancy spring house. My grandfather had one behind his house but not that fancy. I follow the Hollar Homestead also. It is so great to see young families with great work skills and be willing to share their skills with others. Just like you do Justro. God bless all of y’all

I would love to have one of those!

That is so cool !!!! Thanks for showing us :)

Wow if someone was able to get that back in service and live there, that would be awesome.

I can't imagine anything more valuable on a place than spring water and to have a Spring House to go along with that, how fortunate. Thanks for sharing Justro, you and the Girls have a Great Weekend and God Bless 🙂.

You keep finding the best places. Have a great weekend. You can get in touch anytime.

Very interesting ! Thank You , for sharing this.

Very interesting video. Keep posting them. Really appreciate them.

That was a good spring house , thanks for sharing it with us.

Enjoyed fff. Thanks for sharing 🙏 😎 🏖 🏝

Awesome, spring houses are still around there's a couple just down the road from our farm, the water is so cold and fresh. Love your content .. awesome, I subscribed to your channel I gave you a big thumbs up, I sure hope you are blessed with many more subscribers. God bless, JoJo Overhome

That was a great video. Nice to see things constructed in the past.. genius.

That was a nice spring house,water probably about 60 degrees, wouldn't keep as long as a refrigerator, but would greatly extend shelf life, I'm thinking milk my last four, possibly 5 days? I was visualizing all the different food stuffs in it, and no electricity, great video.

Just watched Cog Hill Farm video today, they have natural springs on their 40 acre property. They think they found an old spring house (food storage box) on a hill side, it is made of stacked rocks. Wondering what your opinion is. Their video title about it is This is not what we had planned ( plus update on the ). Thanks for your channel and all of your efforts to mske videos. You do a great job at it. 👍🌞🚜🐓🌻😁

I am originally from Aussie Land, and there they had what was called a coolgardie safe, for a refrigerator, that was put in a breeze way between buildings in the shade and breeze, it was made as a box type framed and had 3 or 4 shelves, the sides and back was covered in a fly screen type fabric/material all around, and the door was covered in it too, with a catch to close it and keep out critters etc. Milk, cream, and cheese etc., was stored in there and used as I said earlier a refrigerator. Very cool, sorry I couldn't resist, lol.

I really love the spring house.🥰

Justin, I sure do wish we could post picture comments. I reckon you'd enjoy the history we have standing! We're over here in Meigs County TN. We have an active spring on our land that feeds a small stream which feeds my neighbors pond, down into another creek and meets another spring at the end of their drive. Their spring is covered by an old spring house from when the Army Corps of Engineers came down in the 1900s to help clear land and show folks how to homestead. The spring house is built from the stones they dug up when clearing land for pasture and farming. Plumb across the road is two houses built from the same stone that was once part of the same land before they split the parcels and built the ridge road. The spring house does have some erosion but is still functional and could be used to store cold items if needed. If you haven't already, go see the Miller Homestead at Roane Mountain State Park. Most of it is still functional, including the wooden flume and the spring house.

The pipe sticking up on the catchment bowl was a vent pipe so the drain wouldn't air lock.

Wow this was a very informative video. You're awesome with your subjects

Brings back a lot of memories of my Mamaw and Papaws spring house.

Really interesting Justro. I know of some local setups where windmills were used to pump well water over cans of milk to cool it in a small building like the springhouse that you showed. Have a great weekend my y friend! 🇺🇲

Amazing...looks like a very modern place to me,not something from the past...so preserved...very interesting.

Been looking forward to learn about a spring house. Thanks Justro. Be blessed.

That was an amazing video!.... Love the content❤️

That’s a pretty sweet spring house!

enjoyed video - someone really thought this out

That’s really neat! Thank you for sharing. Learning so much from you!

Got a rock spring house, built late 1800’s

Brings back such great memories! This is what my grandma's looked like. I think this one is the main way of making them. We had one still in 1950.

I bet that place would be so cool in the summer. Thank you Justro!

Packed a bag to stay with Mamaw a few nights. I am sitting here with my 82-year-old GMA now asking her how they use to keep stuff cold and even in the 1940s & 1950s they were using a springhouse in Lee county Virginia I just had to know what one looked like

Wow! Very interesting That was first one I have ever seen

Very cool! 😊

Whenever I watch your videos, I feel like I've been transported back in time, far a way from this current world of disappointment and chaos. I wonder what year this old springhouse was built? It's a happy fun, fact Friday watching this after a 12 hour shift. Thanks my friend.

Thank you . Always learning from ya

We Still use Spring Water to this Day and Love it....We Hate City Water.

Very nice 😊

I’d like to build a working one, that one was pretty fancy back in the day.

Oh my gosh! I absolutely LOVE IT! It has a nice layout ! I rented a cabin one time had no refrigeration i had a huge spring i put my things in to keep cool This would have been fantastic Thank You ! ❤️

We didn't have a spring house but we had a below ground holding area for our milk cans in the milk house. No where near as sophisticated as that spring house. Too bad it is no longer in use.

Thanks for sharing. That was built really well and functional. What a treasure to still be in such great shape. Is the spring still flowing where it could be used today?

Very interesting.

Yep I watch the Hollar’s

Really enjoyed seeing the spring house~i just imagine all the life lived there before. 🌼🌻🤍

Love this, looks to be in good shape should it need to be used again.

My pappy had a springhouse but I don't remember it being that built up..it would flood out n there was always a sloshy grassy area that we picked ice from n ice skated on

I’m getting ready to build a spring house on the place here…… I really like this design and I’ll probably be doing some of it! Thanks for sharing! Gonna give you a sub as well!

Hey Justro. Reckon the pipe beside the bowl was at one time attached to a hand pump? That way if the water level was low, the water could be pumped up. Just a thought. This was so interesting. I’d love to have a spring house right now. Can you imagine how cool it was in there on a hot summer day. Wonderful 👩‍🌾👍☀️

thanks alot

Love it 😀

Maybe that pipe beside the catchment, the one you weren't sure about, was for a hand pump?

Had a great aunt bent over to get a vessel out of the trof and was bit on the right cheek by a copperhead laying in the crocks . Mamaw said papaw and his brother near came to blows ,neither one of them was gonna suck the poison out of that bite.

i wish it had water running in it

I really enjoyed this one ❤ did the spring dry up? My mind could see those jars and crocks and I’m sure I saw a ghost of one who put them there!