Tennessee

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Deep underground spring emanates from a small cave located on the north hollow trail of the preserve. Produces 200 to 400 gallons per minute year-round.

Additional info: http://www.hobbithollowsfarm.com/home/nature-preserve/cave-spring

Nearest Address

Hobbit Hollows Farm & Gnostic Center 558 T-Short Lane Cookeville, TN 38501-9210

Directions from Nearest Address

From Downtown Cookeville (Interstate 40 and Willow Ave SR135) 1) Travel 10 miles north on Willow Ave, SR 135 which becomes Dodson Branch Hwy. 2) Turn left on Zion Road shortly after passing Anita’s Cafe also on the left. 3) Less than half a mile make your first right on Albert Swift Lane 4) At Lone Oak Lane keep to the left continuing on Albert Swift Lane 5) Make your first left onto T-Short Lane and follow it until you get to the bend in the road where you’ll see the mailbox labeled #558 Hobbit Hollows Farm. 6) Park along the side of the road and take the short trail from the mailbox to the office / cabin for an escorted half-mile hike down into the hollows.

Vital Information

Hours Spring is Open:

By advance appointment Monday – Sunday 8am – dusk. ( see http://www.hobbithollowsfarm.com/contact )

GPS: N/A

Map Link: Cave Spring at Hobbit Hollows Farm & Gnostic Center Map

Submitted by: Jahrun Chilam Balam

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Plastic pipes have been put in and it is right off the road and VERY easy to get the water. It is free-flowing and cold. Nestle bottles their water in that county and my husband’s grandfather would drive there to get his water even though he had a spring on his own land. He said it was the best in the area for taste.

Nearest Address

New Bethel Road where it intersects with Long Creek Road. It actually intersects two times but it is the northernmost intersection and there is a large red barn on the corner.

Directions from Nearest Address

N/A

Vital Information

Hours Spring is Open:

24/7/365

GPS: N/A

Map Link: Johnson Spring Map

Submitted by: Karyn Kirtland

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Other information sources have reported that: “Ebbing and Flowing Spring is one of only two known springs in the world to exhibit tidal characteristics with a predictable regularity. During a period of 2 hours and 47 minutes, the spring’s flow ranges from an indiscernible trickle to 500 gallons per minute. This phenomenon is not understood, but has it generated much speculation.” (Wikipedia, Earthcache GC1JYY3) As an engineer, I have thought how this observed phenomena could be occuring and realized that a siphon was involved. The hillside above the spring has a large cavern space which is continually filling with water from rain or other underground flow. From this cavern, there is a path with an upward, then downward bend which then continues to the spring outlet at the ground level. Water fills the cavern until its liquid level is higher than the top of the exiting bend. A siphon results which quickly pulls the water out of the cavern until air breaks the vacuum. Therefore, flows of a trickle to a gush are observed in a regular cycle. Zoom in on the illustration in the gallery for a visual explanation. See also an 1823 book on physics “Lectures on select subjects in mechanics, hydrostatics, hydraulics” by James Ferguson, David Brewster for a similar explaination with two caverns to have a ebbing spring with a continual (not a trickle) flow at its minimum rate. Scanned by Google Books, although the illustrations are chopped off.

Additional info: http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WM6MP6_Ebbing_and_Flowing_Spring_Rogersville_TN

Nearest Address

W Bear Hallow Road.

Directions from Nearest Address

Approximately 30 miles west of Johnson City, TN.

Vital Information

Hours Spring is Open:

N/A

GPS:

N 36° 25.546 W 082° 57.328

Map Link: Ebbing and Flowing Spring Map

Submitted by: Tommy McGuire

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Good water!! The address above is an excellent bakery…all natural..but because it is a commercial bakery and the spring feeds the bakery..the water has been tested and it is good!

Nearest Address

207 Stone Cave Loop, #A Dunlap, TN

Directions from Nearest Address

N/A

Vital Information

Hours Spring is Open:

24/7/365

GPS: N/A

Map Link: Stone Cave Spring Map

Submitted by: Aniyah Wilson