"Hannah at the Springhouse" is an American reel in cut time and A Mixolydian ('A' part) & A Dorian ('B' part). The parts are played AB. The tune is crooked with the last measure of the A part being in 3/2. It was in the repertoire of legendary fiddler Lewis Johnson "Uncle" Jack McElwain (1856-1938) of White Oak, a tributary of Laurel Creek, near the village of Erbacon, Webster County, West Virginia. Local lore, remarks West Virginia musician and folklorist Gerry Milnes (Play of a Fiddle, 1999), gives that Erbacon was named by the habit of the cook at the local hotel, who invariably asked, "Do you want ham 'r bacon?" Investigating further, Milnes found that the town was actually named for E.R. Bacon, an official with the B & O railroad. Copen, Braxton County, West Virginia, fiddler Melvin Wine (1909-2003) learned the tune from his father, Bob, who had it from his father Nels and Grandfather "Smithy." It was printed sources in Milliner & Koken's Milliner-Koken Collection of American Fiddle Tunes (2011) and Phillips' Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 2 (1995). It was recorded by Melvin Wine on Hannah at the Springhouse (1989/1999).