Blount Springs - Blount County, Alabama
N 33° 55.936 W 086° 47.755
16S E 518861 N 3754664
Famous Health Resort from 1843-1914. Here fashionable ladies and gentlemen of the South vacationed with their families.
Waymark Code: WM31EF
Location: Alabama, United States
Date Posted: 01/25/2008
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Once the site of a popular health spa resort because of the healing qualities of its natural sulfur, lithium, and arsenic springs, its prominence came crashing to a halt in the early 1900's when a fire destroyed much of the resort and town.
Marker Name: Blount Springs
Marker Type: Rural Roadside
Addtional Information::
Famous Health Resort from 1843-1914. Here fashionable ladies and gentlemen of the South vacationed with their families.
Date Dedicated / Placed: 1953
Marker Number: 183
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