Guests at the Line Springs Hotel strolling around around 1920 (McClung Collection photo)
There was once a time when people took simple vacations at the resort hotel in the next county.
They would relax, read, write letters, nap, wade in the creek, play croquet, pool and tennis. They ate big breakfasts in the morning and fried chicken dinners in the late afternoon. Most of all, they would drink mineral water that came out of the ground.
Click here to go out our tour “In Search of Tennessee’s Mineral Springs Hotels.”