Menifee in Pictures: Hot Tub From Centuries Past
Although modern developments continue to push Menifee Valley historic sites out of the way, there are still plenty of them around if you kn...
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Although modern developments continue to push Menifee Valley historic sites out of the way, there are still plenty of them around if you know where to look.
Today, this looks like nothing more than a shallow pond full of green water and algae in a hollowed-out rock. But a local historian says this is an Indian artifact -- a primitive hot tub, you might say.
Reportedly, Native Americans sat in a pool of fresh water after the sun baked the boulder all day, providing a natural heating system for a relaxing spa-like effect. Today, it sits at the side of a dirt road in rural Menifee, simply gathering rainwater.
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It won't last long, the developers will overrun it soon enough like all the other historic Indian burial grounds that were over run by the developers that built Canyon Hills housing.
ReplyDeleteAll areas were undisturbed at one place in time. Such is the price of progress.In a hundred years someone will marvel at the Canyon Hills development and wonder why it is being over run.
ReplyDeleteI think the primitive hot tub idea is the quaint explanation of an imaginative historian. Who wants to climb into a hot rock filled with tepid water after spending the day out under the hot sun? A more likely scenario is a young brave taking his girl friend on a late night ride to show her what he had found that day. Her reply: I’m not going skinny-dipping in a hot rock filled with slimy swamp water.
ReplyDeleteIt was then, as it is today, an anomaly of nature: A rain puddle of stagnant water providing a breeding place for mosquitoes.
If I were the owner of the property where it is located, I would reduce it to rubble before some over-zealous historian sees it and gets it designated as a national treasure thus rendering my property worthless. The only possibility left to me would be renting it to a modern day Lothario to take his prom date skinny-dipping in a hot rock filled with slimy swamp water.