The Black Sulfur Spring

The Black Sulfur Spring is a Tennessee historical marker in Blount County.

Blount Co., Beside Montvale Road Spring Near the pavilion in Maryville, TN (SEE DISTRICT 1C ALSO)

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For more than 200 years the Black Sulfur Spring has been a landmark location in Blount County. The spring and 215 acres was bought from David Delzell in 1834 to become one of three primary mineral springs for Daniel Foute's 6,500 acre Montvale Springs Hotel and Spa (l832-1933) three miles away. For a century the hotel and springs hosted guests from all over the world. The vast mountainous property reached to parts of Cades Cove. Foute hired members of the Cherokee Nation to build roads and trails to Cades Cove and beyond to serve the hotel.

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1829 · Tennessee (A. Finley, 1829) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1832 · Kentucky (Finley, 1832) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1833 · Kentucky and Tennessee. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1838 · Kentucky (T.G. Bradford, 1838) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1844 · Kentucky (H. S. Tanner, 1844) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The Black Sulfur Spring

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