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The Big Well is a large historic water well in Greensburg, Kansas, United States. It was built in 1887 at a cost of $45,000 to provide water for the Santa Fe and Rock Island railroads, and it served as the municipal water supply until 1932.〔(Big Well official homepage )〕 It is billed as the world's largest hand-dug well, at deep and in diameter.〔Other hand-dug wells are much deeper, such as the Woodingdean Well in Brighton, England, but the Big Well's diameter gives it a greater total volume.〕 The ''Well of Joseph'' in the Cairo Citadel at deep and the Pozzo di S. Patrizio (St. Patrick's Well) built in 1527 in Orvieto, Italy, at deep by wide〔(St. Patrick's Well )〕 are both actually larger. It was designated a National Museum in 1972;〔(Big Well ) on World's Largest Things〕 in 1973 it was awarded an American Water Landmark by the American Water Works Association.〔(Water Landmarks ) from the website of the American Water Works Association〕 Under the name of "Greensburg Well," it has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) since 1972.〔(KANSAS - Kiowa County ), Nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com. Accessed 2008-10-23.〕 Visitors entered the well for a small fee, descending an illuminated stairway to the bottom of the well.〔 ==Visitor center== The well had a visitor's center detailing the history of the well's construction. On May 4, 2007, a tornado hit Greensburg, destroying the center.〔Evidence of the destruction is based on a ''Wichita Eagle''/Associated Press photo published (here ) on and hosted by CNN〕 The well reopened on May 26, 2012. The visitor's center also displayed a Brenham half-ton (1,000 lb, 450 kg) pallasite meteorite recovered from the area. The meteorite was billed as the world's largest single-piece pallasite,〔(Big Well Booklet ), Chamber of Commerce, Greensburg, Kansas, written 1987, viewed 6 May 2007.〕 but that title is held by other samples. It was reported that the Big Well visitor center was destroyed, and the meteorite was missing 〔(Greensburg loses unique town treasure too )〕 on May 7, after an EF5 tornado destroyed the town. The meteorite, which was insured for $1 million, was later located underneath a collapsed wall and is being displayed temporarily at the Sternberg Museum of Natural History in Hays, Kansas.〔(Greensburg's famed meteorite found under rubble )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Big Well (Kansas)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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