This is an naturally occurring spring in the desert.
This well is on top of a hill, a spring coming out from the earth, a source of life for the Sinagua Indians.
They grew corn, beans, squash and cotton products.
And they lived in the hills above the lake in Stone houses/caves.
The cliff houses were usually one room homes, might have used ladders to reach them.
The water is always the same temp. 75 degrees year round.
They dug a ditch one mile long to irrigate their crops.
Lined with stone, and about three feet deep for their fields.
You can imagine how well their crops grew in the warm waters.
Look at the Arizona Sycamore tree at the edge of the irrigation ditch, look how it grew!
And then they left, Montezuma Castle, and Montezuma Well, no one knows why they left, no written records a mystery to all today.
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