Historical Marker

Tar Springs

Four miles south. A fashionable health resort of 1840s which had the unique attraction of a l00-foot cliff from which tar bubbled while from its base flowed eleven springs, each with different type of mineral water. Indians knew and used these curative waters. Wiley B. Rutledge, Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1943-49, was born, 1894, at Tar Springs resort.