Spring
Water
resort about 1900; bottled into the 1950s; city preserve from the 1970s
City of Atlanta
General area only

Cascade Springs

Mineral springs by South Utoy Creek that became a small resort and bottled-water business and, after the city bought the land in the 1970s, the Cascade Springs Nature Preserve.

See it on the map All Water records

The record

Wikipedia's Cascade Heights article says the springs were developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and named 'Cascade' for three small waterfalls by the road, now in the preserve's northeast corner, and that a spring house still shelters the original spring. Atlas Obscura says a small, exclusive resort with a hotel and restaurant was built around 1900 and the water was bottled and sold through the 1950s; remains include a pump house, a small quarry and a spring house with a little moat. Artist-researcher Hannah Palmer notes the city parks department bought it in the 1970s. Confederate trenches from the August 1864 Battle of Utoy Creek survive in the same preserve.

Today: Cascade Springs Nature Preserve, about 120 acres, 2852 Cascade Rd SW.

Look for: The spring house and moat, the pump house, and the three small falls near the road.