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homeplace had a spring and
they built it over the spring,”
Teague says. “They built it
with a concrete pad right up
to where the water comes out
of the rock … and the water
comes through,” he said. The
spring house was a farmstead’s
refrigerator, where they kept
perishable goods.
In the early days, the milk
that farmers didn’t need for
their family was sold to the local
creamery. In Bedford County it
was either Shelbyville Pure Milk
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‘I was so naive as a kid,
I used to sneak behind the

barn and do nothing.’

— Johnny Carson

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