Wow! My husband and son went today and brought us home some water. It tastes great! While they were there, they talked to a few locals from the area. One very nice older woman said that before they put in the drinking pipe, she had been coming to get water as a young girl. They supposedly use to use a bucket and rope back then to get their water from this place!

Very nice folks out there in Canton, TX. True…. it's not a cute site like some of the others are, but what comes out of it makes it all worth the trying! Who knows……maybe latter on they may start asking for donations and build a nice little stone/rock feature on it, to make it look more appealing? I would give to keep this artesian well going. Thanks for this wonderful site!!!!!!!!!!!

I tested the water at the canton spring for fluoride contamination.
The test results were 0.03PPM to 0.05 PPM
Which are really great test results!

good water … large uv filter and my guess is also a micron filter on it … nice town … some nice may apple plants in the woods if you trek in em

happy hunting blood!

Does anyone know the history of thie well? Who put the pipe and filter on it? Wo put the fence up? Thanks.

I went to this well last weekend and what a treat!!! The water was clear, ice cold and tasted so good. I filled my two 7 gallon jugs and have enjoyed the water at home. I can really tell the difference between tap water and the spring water from the well.
Not pretty to look at but does not matter the water makes up for the site location and its free. A beautiful drive to Canton and was very easy to find.
I had to wait in line to fill up. People in front of me filled up 12 blue 5 gallons jugs.
And had people in line after me….Well worth the trip and will be going back.

I personally feel that any interference with the natural hydrological cycle has potential repercussions to the natural balance. For instance when we dig or drill a hole and tap into the aqua fir in this manner, a conical depression can form changing the flow, direction and pressure of the aqua fir. This can even cause the water to drop into other underground tables, thus drying up an entire well/spring. Furthermore, water goes through a maturation process much akin to creating a fine wine. When the water is ready to support life on this planet in the highest order, it will come out of the ground out of its own accord. I do not support digging wells that interfere with the natural flow. If the water is coming to the surface of its own accord and a well or temple is built around it than that is a different story. If I don’t have access to source spring water, but do have access to well water, of course I will drink this instead of anything else, as the water does tend to be very pure…anyhow just sharing perspective. I do suggest checking out Frankston/Cuney Spring if you are indeed a water warrior…

Just wanted to say THANKS to Find-a-spring for giving this awesome info on locating the best water for only the price of gas to get you there and back . Live in Waxahachie and have made 4 trips out there in the last year to fill up 6 5-gal water bottles each time (you can get BPA free on eBay) and I have also let a few others in on my secret to the purest water around. A couple questions, though…first, does anyone know anythng about the UV setup? It appears someone used to pay for that service, but the meters read no activity so it looks like it is shut down – not sure if that is good or bad. Second, does anyone know the general storage life of untreated water? Sometimes if a half finshed bottle sits around a bit (I travel a lot) and gets condensation I sometimes put a few drops of food grade Hydrogen Peroxide in it just to be safe, but was wondering about general or standard precautions if necessary? Thanks! Sure do love the cold gushing water, esp in the Texas heat!

I happen to know a good bit about this well. My grandfather, Robert E. Faulkner, drilled it and set the original pipe in the early 1950s. He and my grandmother lived about 1/4 mile north of the well in a two-room house (all bathroom facilities, including the shower, outdoors). Their kitchen tap was connected to a small pond on their property, and that supplied them with household water. But each day my grandfather (and any grandchildren who happened to be visiting) would walk to the well with an old-fashioned enamel bucket and bring home the “drinking water.”
For over 15 years, the well was nothing more than a three inch pipe rising about 2 feet above the ground. Water flowed constantly over the open top and onto the ground. It then gathered into a brook that wound off through the woods to the east of the road. Eventually, this little creek emptied into the pond.
Sometime in the 1970s, my grandparents sold their property and moved to Henderson, Texas. Rather than letting the well go with the property, my grandfather deeded it to the city of Canton with the stipulation that it would always be open to the public.
It saddened me a great deal to return and find the ugly fence around the well. I liked the old, mossy pipe much better.

Yes…would like to know. Just made another trip out there today – I just can’t get over how awesome it is to have access to such high quality water with all the latest studies saying reverse osmosis isn’t even considered safe anymore.

I noticed after 4 months that a listing for Cuney Spring is still not on the map. Wonder why.

I do not like the PVC pipe on the spring at all. The PVC pipe should be replaced with a stainless steel pipe. The UV filtration unit on the spring is not good. I do not like the UV filtration unit at all. The water is perfect right out of the ground. You can unplug the UV filtration thing when you get your water. The PVC pipe and UV filter need to be removed.

Is Cuney-Frankston well artesian ????

I am so fortunate to live only 15 miles from this delicious water. Just filled up four large jugs last weekend. It tastes so pure and wonderful.

HEY HOW FAR IS THIS FROM HOUSTON??

I have been in Texas for 16 years now and is from Louisiana where I have to take 5 gallon bottles with me when I go home to get spring water and today I said I know all of Texas there have to be a spring some where. I live in Garland Tx now and so happy I found this place after countless hours of searching. I will be going this week end ,me and my daughter usually go to the springs back home in Louisiana together. I really enjoy sharing that experience with her…. I would I get there from Garland, I know I have to take 20  but what exit off of 20… Thanks in advance…

Head south to Canton. The spring is right off 19, just south of Canton, heading to Athens.

Thanks

Kathie-
Thanks for your update. I was wondering about the quality of the water due to the drought… Will wait until it cools off modest we have some rain before I go trekking out there. Thanks again for the current update.

I don’t know. My husband drinks it and likes it, with no stomach problems. It gives me a really bad aftertaste with a burn to it. My immune system is good but I’m very sensitive to chemicals, so my guess is that it’s contaminated with agrotoxins. (The way I got so sensitive to chemicals was by drinking untreated well water and ignoring the bad taste – for 3 years before I realized the well was contaminated by everything our neighbor put on his field: weedkillers, lime, etc.) But I could easily be wrong about this one. I’m also concerned that perhaps the city isn’t maintaining it or testing it anymore. The cyclone fence is down, so it’s accessible by people and animals. The UV apparatus is sitting there open and appears to be rusting right above it. I can’t help but wonder what kinds of toxic metals are leaching out of it and going right into the well. There are mobile homes not that far away, probably with septic tanks, fertilize on their gardens, etc. It just doesn’t seem to be very “protected”.

I understand I have MCS…….I have to go again this week and pick up some more……we even cook with it…. We went on a mini vaca and I drank distilled water the entire time we were gone….came home drank 4 glasses of “Our” water here at the house and my lymph nodes swelled  again, so over to the well we went….
I DO Agree
It could be kept better but they don’t seem to care much about it, When I was young none of that was there….
I think it is  a shame that so many local people have capped there well or fenced it off so that people can’t get to them around this area
For those out of town, We had an inch of rain last night:) If you are worried about the farm run off ect making this bad, trust me with MCS It would set me off right away and doesn’t……just an fyi
You can email me at Herbsofafeather@aol.com     CANTON WELL In the Subject if you are interested in having this well tested……I think we will try to get it done pretty soon if I can’t find out that it is being done by the city!

There is one near Winsboro Tx in Scroggin Tx

Artesian in canton made me extremely sick. 6 hours after drinking a bottle, i had horrible stomach cramps, puking & brown water diarreha. Sux, i shoulda boiled it first… I went yesterday (11.4.11)…. Never again… Ill buy from whole foods here in dallas, triple distilled… Omg… My whole weekends been ruined

Billy So sorry you had that problem…..I do what you discribed after eating out at most places…..so I know it isn’t fun…..
.IF anyone else has this problem please email me at Herbsofafeather@aol.com, I will notify Canton if there are more than just billy and let them know……Still doing fine with my water we got this week…..

We just got more water 11/19/2011 and it seems to be fine. We only drink water from this well now, and always untreated. Maybe it was a virus or something you had that was just a coincidence. Or a hot dog on the trip?

Jan – its nice to hear from a family member.  My family got water from this well – from the time I was a little girl.  We moved to the area in 1955. My little brother was a baby – and he’s now a ranch manager in Larue.  My folks had a big 25 gallon glass holder that swung on a metal holder.  Poppa would go and get water from the spring – the mossy pipe you talk of – because the glass container was so heavy.  Later they went and got the water in gallon jugs.  I remember how cold and clear that water was from the pipe – AND how much the local folk appreciated your grandfather deeding the well. 

My last memory, I live in Seattle now, was a trip to the well with my Father, the day after my Mother’s funeral.  We’d gone to ‘get water’ , most likely because it was something normal and comforting to do.  We talked about Mom and their life together. A trip to the well was just sort of sustaining.

We truly enjoyed that water – and perhaps my sister still goes to get water from there. But your family’s generosity was a legacy to me !