Sunbury - BloodySprings

Bloody Spring

Located about one-half mile from Fort Augusta is another spot of historic interest which still remains today, called "The Bloody Spring." The incident that gave this name to the spring shows what constant danger the forts were in, for they all were in like danger. Over this spring grew a plum tree and one day while the plums were ripe Colonel Miles and one of the lieutenants from the fort took a walk to this tree to gather some plums. While they were there a party of Indians lay concealed in a thicket nearby and managed to get themselves almost between the two soldiers and the fort. Just then another soldier came to the spring for a drink. The Indians were in danger of being discovered, so fired at and killed the third soldier. Colonel Miles and the lieutenant took the chance and got back to the fort in much less time than it took them to walk out to the spring. The rescuing party from the fort found the soldier scalped and his blood trickling into the spring, thus giving it its name.

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