The Hidden Well

We have a wonderful friend named Hope Wilson - married to Tom Wilson.  Hope's goal is to perfect as much of the world as she can as quickly as possible.  In the course of meeting that goal, Hope caused the concrete patio behind their house to be ripped out last week to be replaced with something - I am not sure just what.


You can see the pile of concrete rubble.  The brown lawn chair lying on the ground in the top photo covers the hole you can see uncovered in the second photo.  The other photos show what is down the hole.  It is a well or a cistern some 20 feet deep with a lot of water in the bottom.  Note the brick work that lines the entirety of it.  No one knew the well was there.  The house was built in 1867 but the addition at the back is probably 100 years or so old and the well has likely been covered that long.