This video explores the history of Arbordale, originally the Fountain Lake Resort built in 1919 by Weldon Nail and later developed by Dr. H.D. Ferguson in the 1930s as a summer playground featuring attractions like the 'Huge Water Donut' and a concrete slide. The resort was destroyed by fire on December 20, 1953, and remained abandoned until 2018 when Primo Water Corporation acquired the property to build a state-of-the-art bottling facility, transforming the site from a century-old water playground into a modern industrial operation.
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This forest hides a 100 year old secret!Added:
Now, most of us know Fountain Lake as a small town, as we say, by the roundabout, which is also the name for the school there.
Well, I'm standing next to a massive decaying ribbon of moss-covered concrete.
To to look at it, it's just a strange forgotten ruins, but this forest hides a century-old secret.
Today, we're exploring Arbordale, originally known as the legendary Fountain Lake Resort.
But, before we travel back in time to the wild parties of the '30s, I want to drop a teaser. The very ground I'm standing on is tied directly to a massive modern industrial transition. A corporate giant you interact with almost every day owns this silent forest and many more, and they're building something massive right outside our gates, but we're going to save that bombshell for the end of the story.
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