Sad to say that today a trip to Hillington Cemetery in Morris won't provide you with a view of this fountain. Someone made off with it some years ago. As far as I know the crime has not been solved. This fountain was in the "old" section, near the Civil War monument.
Rene Elliott shared the image and wrote the following.
I have seen other images showing all these rocks along the driveway (where did they go? Or come from?) but this image shows what looks like they may have been relocated steps from the old 1894 - 1932 school building?
The ice flood, which shows the annex on the Grove St. blacksmith shop (site of village barn now), I don't know if they would have had a turbine in the creek under this or not but could have made it handler to access water with a pail. But deeds from c. 1840 mention the right of a millrace across the property and street to the machine shop across the street, which would later use steam until Linn installed a gasoline engine about a century ago.
Warren Ryther has taken the time to write a memoire of the Morris Manor Farm.
He has very kindly allowed me to share this with readers of this web site and the Morris Historical Society page on Facebook.
He welcomes comments, additions and corrections. Please make any of those that you would like to reach Warren by using the link below.
