After reaching the village of Spring Green, the road to Helena, the location of the old shot tower, crosses the Wisconsin River and deflects to the left. This shot tower was erected in 1833 as a result of the production of lead in Wisconsin and at the time diverted much of the business from St. Louis to Milwaukee. The enterprise prospered until 1861 when it fell into decay, the land being sold for taxes. Later the location became the site of the Tower Hill Congress and school directed for many years by the late Rev. Jenkin Lloyd Jones of Chicago. It was here that the American forces crossed the river in the Black Hawk War. A short distance west of the road which crosses the river near Spring Green is the location of Taliesin, Frank Lloyd Wright's 'love bungalow'. Here on Saturday, August 15, 1914, Julian Carlson, a negro servant, killed seven people with a hatchet, wounding two others. The dead: Mrs. Mamah Borthwick, a woman, like the owner of the bungalow, with unconventional ideas. Mrs. Borthwick's son and daughter, John and Martha Cheney, aged 11 and 9 respectively. Emil Brodelle, aged 30, an architect. Thomas Brunker, hostler. Ernest Weston, aged 13. David Lindblom, gardener. The injured were William H. Weston and Herbert Fritz, the latter escaping with a broken arm and cuts. With gasoline the negro set fire to the building and as the occupants attempted to escape through a door and window, one by one, he struck them with a hatchet. The murderer was found in the firebox of the boiler in the basement and died later in the Dodgeville jail as a result of taking muriatic acid soon after committing the crime. Some of the bodies were burned beyond recognition. "All that was left of her" was buried at Unity Chapel, the Cheney children were cremated in Chicago, the body of Ernest Weston was placed in the Spring Green cemetery, Emil Brodelle was interred in Milwaukee, David Lindblom was lowered in a grave at Unity Chapel and Thomas Brunker sleeps at Ridgeway. The owner of the property was in Chicago at the time of the tragedy, returning soon after. The building was partly destroyed and later rebuilt along more pretentious lines. Taliesin was a Cymric bard, whom Welsh legends assign to the 6th century. Frank Lloyd Wright is an architect of note, having designed the Imperial Hotel in Tokio and other artistic structures. The return from Spring Green to Baraboo may be made over the scenic route to Plain, thence to Loganville, the County Farm, and Ableman Narrows. Gibraltar Bluff