I would guess that it bears no importance except that it must have been on a Lintner's property. But it does make for a good anecdotal story. Even more information has come to us from one of Jeff's relatives, Larry Lintner . The Ostquago is a gently flowing creek with quite a bit of slate outcroppings. Even today, townspeople in Ft.
Plains use the hole for cooling off on hot summer afternoons.
I was there a few summers ago and asked several of the townspeople why they referred to it as Lintner's and none of them knew except that for years everyone referred to it in that manner. Later that day, I was talking to the caretaker of the St. Paul's Cemetery in Ft. I introduced myself and told him I was a descendant of the Lintner family. The location of the homestead is just off Route 80 one mile west of Ft. At the intersection of Rt.