Sulphur Springs
Asheville, Buncombe County, North Carolina
Marker Inscription
Sulphur Springs. Health & social resort during the nineteenth century; patronized by low-country planters. Springs are 600 yds. S.
Erected by North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources
The Story
During the nineteenth century, Sulphur Springs drew visitors to its mineral waters as a fashionable health and social resort in the mountains near Asheville. Low-country planters especially favored it, escaping the coastal summer heat and disease for the cool Blue Ridge. The springs themselves lie a short distance south of this marker.
Why it matters
Mineral-spring resorts like this one launched western North Carolina's long career as a health and tourism destination, an economy that still shapes the region today.
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