Blount Springs was a mineral-springs resort community that drew wealthy visitors from across the South throughout the antebellum period and beyond. The earliest specific reference found to date is around 1815, when Davy Crockett is believed to have spent time recuperating at the sulphur springs here.
From the 1820s through the 1930s, Blount Springs’ mineral springs and rural setting made it a summer resort destination for visitors from Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia, Mississippi, and Louisiana. The Jackson House opened as a resort hotel in 1874; stagecoach service to Blount Springs was already running by 1841. Like Reid’s Station, the community lost much of its economic activity when the L&N relocated its main line in 1914–15.
Blount Springs saw new life starting in 1989, when a New Urbanism-influenced community began rising “from the limestone, sheltered by massive oaks, hickories, and beeches.” Blue Hole Lake — a dammed stretch of Mill Creek dredged into a 7-acre lake — became the literal center the modern community organizes around, and remains an active local swimming, boating, and fishing spot today.