Week 3: Camping at Rocky Springs
January 17, 2017
This morning we hiked to the town site of Rocky Springs, about a mile up the road above our campground. Established in 1790, at its heyday 2,600 people lived in the town. Today there’s still a functional church and an historic cemetery, as well as some cisterns from former buildings. The town met its end between some combination of yellow fever and the boll weevil.