This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Owen; Lee Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/2R.2ADE/614.746 Message Board Post: My family home is Pyriton, AL just a couple of miles from Clairmont Springs. I swam there as a kid in the 50's. The spring water ran through a pipe and kept the swimming pool full. The excess water ranoff into a creek. Water was very cold. Pyriton was named for Pyrite mines- Pyrite is fools gold. It was mined around the turn of the century and is an iron sulfide with industrial uses.