"It is an ideal bathing-place."
This is from a letter Mark Twain wrote in August of 1908:
"To-day, in a lovely place in the woods a mile and half from here [Stormfield] we visited a fine swimming pool a hundred yards long, twenty wide and 26 feet deep- water as clear as crystal, with a perpendicular rock jumping-off place 15 feet high- densely wooded shores all around. You get to it by an obscure path leading from the distant wagon-road. It is an ideal bathing-place."
Falls Hole is no longer a legal swimming pool, but as you can see it has history as one.
See Perpendicular Rock in the top left of this photo:
Tuesday, July 28
Mark Twain on Falls Hole in Redding, CT...
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