Little Eureka Spring, though I could find no markings for it, is a city spring reservation at the end of Steele Street where it curves into Douglas Street, just before Little Lake Eureka.
The spring-fed lake, created by a dam as a water supply more than a century ago, is now surrounded by private property and private drives, although it’s fine to visit the end of the lake with the low-walled stone dam.
(See video of the dripping spring water in the small cavelet.)
Though the spring and lake don’t factor into the “People of the Water” Cycle, you can imagine what it was like for this lake to serve as water supply and swimming lake when Eureka Springs was young and the first novel’s events took place.
Little Eureka Spring reservation“Mac” Weems was a colorful construction engineer who designed and built the superstructure of the Christ of the Ozarks statue, life-size dinosaur figures at the now-closed “Dinosaur World” near Busch, AR, and kept the steam locomotives of the ES&NA Railway running for many years.Little Lake Eureka; grounds tended by gardenersLucky landowners live on either side of this spring-fed lake.
W. Keith Brenton is a retired communication specialist, minister and passenger train conductor, living and writing in the historic resort village Eureka Springs, Arkansas. He is the widowed adoptive dad of Matt and Laura, and Pop-Pop to one grandchild. He enjoys drinking the local water, but unfortunately doesn’t look any younger than his actual age.
W. Keith Brenton 