History

Blount Springs's mineral springs and rural setting made it a summer resort for thousands of wealthy people from Alabama

Alabama

Alabama is a state located in the southeastern region of the United States. It is bordered by Tennessee to the north, Georgia to the east, Florida and the Gulf of Mexico to the south, and Mississippi to the west. Alabama ranks 30th in total land area and ranks second in the size of its inland...

 and elsewhere in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The sulfur springs were renowned for their curative properties. After a fire burned much of the town in 1915, it remained sparsely populated and largely undeveloped for several decades.

In the late 1980s, developers began work on the Village at Blount Springs, the first stage of a 6000 acres (24.3 km²) planned community on the former site of the Blount Springs resort.

Numerous springs emerge at the site of the former resort, each containing a different mineral (white sulfur, red sulfur, and lithium, to name a few). When the resort was still in operation, water from the springs was sold in blue glass bottles. Shards of these bottles fill the soil near the foundations of the resort, and are said to bring good luck.

Geography

Blount Springs is located at 33°55'52" North and 86°47'38" West. The community lies east of Interstate 65

Interstate 65

Interstate 65 is a major Interstate Highway in the United States. The southern terminus is located at an intersection with Interstate 10 in Mobile, Alabama, and its northern terminus is at an interchange with Interstate 90 , U.S. Route 12, and U.S...

, about 28 miles (45.1 km) north of Birmingham

Birmingham, Alabama

Birmingham is the largest city in Alabama. The city is the county seat of Jefferson County. According to the 2010 United States Census, Birmingham had a population of 212,237. The Birmingham-Hoover Metropolitan Area, in estimate by the U.S...

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Attractions

The Blount Springs Arts and History Foundation hosts the annual Blue Hole Art Fest. The community's Top Hat Barbecue also is renowned across the Southeast

Southeastern United States

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 for its pulled pork sandwiches and ketchup-based barbecue

Barbecue

Barbecue or barbeque , used chiefly in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Australia is a method and apparatus for cooking meat, poultry and occasionally fish with the heat and hot smoke of a fire, smoking wood, or hot coals of...

sauce.