Near this spring for many years resided Thachnectorus "The Spreading Oak," also known as Captain John Logan (1718-1820), eldest son of Shikellemus, Vice-Gerent of the Iroquois Federation in Pennsylvania, and a staunch and tried friend of the white men in the Juniata Valley during the Revolutionary War. The Big Spring, situated adjacent to the far side of Washington Avenue, appeared in a photograph from 1866 and was maintained as a community scenic attraction until its water supply became greatly diminished and it was filled in to ground level in 1960.