Parking Garage- site of Pure Spring Water Company 1847

In 1847, The Pure Spring Water Company, a private company, was organized to satisfy the demand for water created by the housing boom of 1840’s. Two pit reservoirs were dug on the south side of East Linden Street where the parking garage now stands. Water was pumped from the east branch of the Red Clay Creek and distributed to homes by terra cotta pipes. 

The Borough of Kennett Square bought stock in the water company in 1856 and purchased the entire company in July 1867, for $3,000.

The second photo shows one of the water supply tanks (far left in photo; installed 1954) that stood behind the Municpal Building at E.Linden and Broad Streets. The Municipal Building was demolished in 2019 to make way for the parking garage expansion shown in first photo.