✅ SOLVED Need help identifying an old foundation in the middle of the woods

[Robotics]

I have run across a few different types of foundations and normally know what they were at one time.
But this one has me baffled. It is about 13 feet square, one corner of the inside is "boxed out" (for lack of better words). In the top right corner of the attached pic. is a pipe coming into this enclosure at the floor level. The floor itself inside this enclosure is solid cement. The "boxed in" area in one of the corners has a pipe about 1-1/2 to 2 feet above the floor level going outside of the building in mid air, pointing towards a used to be creek. You can see it in the pic.
There is a well about 100-120 feet downhill from this enclosure...and so far after several returns, I have yet to find an old foundation to a house. Nothing around this well area (so far).

Any help on this would be great. I can not figure this out...especially no signs of a dwelling anywhere close to the well area. And definitely no electricity anywhere around to possibly run what I thought might of been a water pumping station.
Both the well and this foundation are roughly 8-11 feet from what used to be a creek.

 

[relic nut]

Looks like what is left of a spring house. The dwelling could be a good ways off in any direction. Of course, this is just a guess.

HH RN

 

[civil_war22]

We have a place up here like that bigger foundation that was once used as a bootleggers cabin. Before that I think it was a hunting cabin/ or an old settlers hime. Course here in the backwoods of arkansas anything is possible. There is a rectangle box on the side of an old road country dirt road here that is filled with water and I've walked all over that property and never found a home place so it may just be a stage stop.

 

[relic lover]

Usually we find a weird Foundation like that it turns out to be from a coal Tipple

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[cw0909]

cool find have you looked at older maps, maybe see what was

Historic Map Works, Residential Genealogy ?
NETR Online ? Historic Aerials
https://imagebase.lib.vt.edu/browse.php

 

[kcm]

Could be an old cistern.

 

[creskol]

From what I gather from older folks in the valley, those boxes were used for potato and onion storage.

 

[Robotics]

Looks like what is left of a spring house. The dwelling could be a good ways off in any direction. Of course, this is just a guess.

HH RN

I think you are right. I have done a lot of research and cant find anything definitive, but does seem to be the best conclusion so far. I am guessing there is a lot of erosion that has taken place in this area due to I am not running across anything in the ground around this structure, and the well. I have run into quite a few square nails, but these are roughly 250 feet from the well and 300 some feet from this structure.
Thanks for your response

 

[Robotics]

cool find have you looked at older maps, maybe see what was

Historic Map Works, Residential Genealogy ?
NETR Online ? Historic Aerials
https://imagebase.lib.vt.edu/browse.php

Yes I have, and thanks for these links! In the area this structure is at, there is only a couple maps (civil war maps) of this area. Almost like it wasn't important to have much info in this area. I hear of others that seem to have a lot of info in the areas they detect due to old maps, but no luck like that for me. This area just wasn't mapped out all that well. The maps I have found for this area are pretty much the same maps more or less.
Thanks for your response

 

[Goldiver]

This type of setup was often used by dairy farmers to store the metal milk cans and keep them cool until the milk buyers could come and pick them up.