COLESTOWN. In the eastern part of the township, and about a mile east of St. Marys Church, is Old Colestown proper. But little remains to show what constituted the business of the place. The location is on the farms of Thomas Roberts, Joseph C. Haines and the property of Watson Ivins. The attraction of the locality was a mineral spring with an unfailing supply of water. The owner of this stream had the water analyzed and the record of the analysis was cut in letters on a marble slab and set up beside the spring for all to read. The owner is supposed to have been Allenson Giffins, who built a hotel or sanitarium, which was known as the Fountain Hotel, and was the resort of numbers of invalids and became quite famous in its day. This spring is located on the farm of Joseph C. Haines, but has become so filled up as to be difficult to find. The Fountain Hotel property finally passed into the possession of Joseph Roberts, and was acquired by his son Isaac, who used it as a residence for several years, and his daughter Susanna, the wife of the present William D. Coles, was born in the old hotel. About thirty-eight years ago Isaac Roberts moved the frame part of the building to the farm now owned by Joseph C. Haines, and with the brick and stone constructed the front of the present farm-house, while the original frame constitutes the remainder of this building and is now a substantial, modern edifice. The marble slab that stood by the spring was removed by Joseph C. Haines, the present owner, and does service as a door-step at his residence, near Lumberton, Burlington County. Allenson Giffins or his ancestors at one time kept a tan-yard near the hotel, but it has long since disappeared; although portions of its remains are at times discovered by the plowman. In late years Joseph Roberts owned a saw-mill near the hotel and its location is still discernible. Although the former prosperity of the place has long since departed, the location is beautiful in its quiet seclusion, and if the mineral spring ever again comes into prominence its old-time popularity can easily be revived.