Name/Title
Holder, BottleEntry/Object ID
2006.013.001Description
A wooden water jug cradle. Water from Pyam Hatch's spring was delivered to homes in glass bottles of varying sizes. This wood bottle cradle was made for the Devereaux cottage to hold the largest bottle, a five-gallon jug. Frances Devereaux Train remembers it in her mother's bathroom. It was probably last used in the 1940s. The cradle/bottle holder is c 14" in all dimensions, a wood box mounted by dowels on a wooden frame allowing the bottle to be tilted horizontally to facilitate the pouring of water from the encased bottle.
per M Congdon: " Pyam Hatch's spring is located on the western half of his farm, part of the original Joshua Pendleton property, behind the Sears Cottage, on what is now Congdon property. The present driveway to 273 Pendleton Point was built on the old spring house road over which Pyam or his hired hand drove a wagon filled with wooden crates and glass jugs, some 1 gallon, some 5 gallon, some 10. The "spring house" was c 75' from high tide; in it was a tall ceramic reservoir which was gravity fed by pipes coming down the hill from the spring which is located on high ground to the south. The spring had a clean sand bottom, the water bubbled up into large covered ceramic cylinders c 36" diam x 50" high. The spring still exists but the equipment has been vandalized or stolen. The spring house was torn down in the 1980s. The water is said to have rivalled Poland Spring water; it was sold to Dark Harbor cottagers and is said to have been a pretty good business."