Melba Lowe sent this to the list a while back: The following is an article written for the Southern Democrat in 1936 about the BLOUNT SPRINGS community. Author Bessie Warren Blount Springs Community is located on the Bee Line Highway between Garden City and Warrior. In the year 1818 Jonas Byars moved from N C and settled in a little cave one and one half miles East of the Springs, and in 1820 was built the first cabin. In the late twenties the property was bought by Mr. Harris and Mr Perine who built a splended hotel right near the springs, and it was not long until Blount Springs became a noted Summer resort, and was patronized by the people of the South. In the early forties the property was sold to a Mr George Goff, a wealthy New Yorker, who planted Mulberry trees along what is now known as the Mulberry prong of the Warrior River. The river took its name from this project of Mr Goff. As soon as the Mulberry trees were large enough Mr Goff placed millions of silk worms on these trees and started a silk factory at Blount Springs. The silk industry was a failure so was Mr Goff and in a few years the property was sold under mortgage and bought by Parrish and Company of New York. The property remained in their hands until bought by J F B Jackson in 1876. The hotel, which had already been started was burned in 1866. When JFB Jackson bought the property he built another, and in 1878 built a large one. In the later eighties, Mr Jackson sold the property to the Sloss Company of Birmingham, Al. In 1895 Blount Springs was again sold under mortgage, and bought by Arthur W Smith, W E Byars, and Capt. Graves. In 1903 they sold this property to W M Drennen whose heirs and assingns now own the property. Debra Garner