The Epperson Springs Hotel, built by local businessmen so that residents and visitors could enjoy bathing and soaking in a mineral springs, stood here. Most of the state's early resorts grew up around mineral springs; physicians often touted the value of "taking the waters," or hydrotherapy, to their patients. The springs resorts were as well known for their social life as for their alleged cures.
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