Historical Marker

Dawson Springs

In its heyday, from the start of the century until mid-1920's, this was one of best known spas, health resorts in the South. Thousands of the sick, the lame, the well came for the curative waters and to enjoy the social activities. Six firms bottled and shipped the chalybeate water all over the U.S. W. I. Hamby, resident of Hopkins County, discovered springs, 1881.