Pond Spring - Joe Wheeler Home

03/25/17

West view of Pond Spring, Gen. Joe Wheeler's home in Wheeler, Alabama. They were having a plant sale today, on the front porch.

Rear view, looking from south-east.

Spring House

Pond Spring, the home of Gen. Joe Wheeler, in Wheeler, Alabama, had a plant sale yesterday. Pam and I went down there and I snapped a few shots of the grounds. A lot of you probably don't know, but my dad was born only a mile or two from this spot and grew up in Wheeler. He was the last of eight (nine if you count their cousin, ONeal Davis, who was raised with them).

As kids, we were in Wheeler nearly every weekend, and I would stay a week at a time during the summers. It was not uncommon that we rambled all over the "grove". Miss Annie had arbors every where and flowers planted throughout the place.

It was a bit disappointing to see what has happened to the garden, to the left of the main house. I remember it looking like a maze with the boxwoods and right in the middle was a sundial. Where did the sundial go? Also, the log barn or shed you see above has been transplanted there. I do remember there being a library building to the northwest of the house, but I never got a chance to go in it.