Timmermann springfed swimming pool on Geronimo creek

My interest in the history of the Geronimo creek recently led me to what remains of the Timmermann Swimming Pool. Built out of concrete around 1917. The water was piped from a nearby spring.  The pool was for men only except for one day a week when it was open for women only. It seems that children were not allowed in the pool. It seems that the pool was open off and on for 12 years.  Closed by William Timmermann in 1929. The reason is a little vague. Some say that it was due to a typoid epidemic(this was before the standard use of chlorine for sanitation and people worried that disease could be spread by swimming in the same pool).  Another reason that is worth mentioning is that Mr Timmermann closed the pool because he didn't like some of the activities that evolved around the  use of the pool. I wasn't able to discover exactly what activities ..

                                            This is what the Timmermann pool looked like in 1919.

This is what the Timmermann pool look like today

Spring that fed the pool

 

 

Piping that connected the pool to the spring