Richfield SPRINGS New York, you say? Bring a waterwitch and you'll find this puppy in no time... But what's that smell? "Uncle Tom, did you let one rip?" ... "Pull over, there's a geocache here!"
The name "Richfield Springs" is derived from the natural sulfuric springs, and dubbed "Big Medicine Waters" by local natives, The Canadarago Indians. Enjoy the park and have a picnic, but keep away from this area if you're eating. Dive in to the springs and enjoy the healing waters in all their pungent glory.
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From a NYTimes Article entitled: "AT THE SULPHUR SPRINGS" writing on behalf of the attraction of the springs and the "spring houses" that boarded such visitors. Published June 23, 1882.
"Remarkable stories are told of the virtues of these sulphur springs. Said one of the fashionable invalids to the writer: "I've seen 18 men driven down to the hotels from the depot who had to be helped out of their carriages and up the stairs to their beds. After drinking this stuff some days they began to improve, and after awhile they got down stairs and into the sulphur vapor baths. In a month or six weeks their rheumatism and gout--for they were all high livers--and aches and pains had vanished, and the old fellows fairly took to attending hops and to long walks. Nearly every one of them I afterward met on the hotel plazas at Saratoga and down on the race track, of old "duffers" that I ever saw." … One of the most valuable effects of these springs has been, so the natives say, to render the village unpopular to mosquitoes."
Enjoy the find! The locals will say "what smell?" So don't ask them. ;)