Martin Spring Store & Springhouse

Martin Spring Rd, Martin Spring, MO
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In the late 1920's Bill and Emma Martin built this two story building that served both as a home upstairs and store downstairs. There were gas pumps out front and a few cabins out back. They also operated the little stone springhouse next door. The store was converted to a home when I-44 opened.

The small stone springhouse was rebuilt in the 1950s after a car crashed into it. It's a pretty modest building, but it reportedly housed a pretty large spring producing as much as 840,000 gallons of water a day, most of which found it's way into the Little Beaver Creek a short distance away.

There are a pair of outhoses left standin back near the woods on the east side of the property.

Photo(s): 2017