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Cotoosa Springs Located in Walker Co. Geo. Six miles West of the Tunnel, and Two miles form the W. & A. Rail Road, and Five miles from the East Tenn. & Geo. Rail Road. 436 Miles from Charleston, S.C. – 300 Miles from Augusta Geo. – 405 from Savannah, Geo. – 214 from Macon, Geo. 113 from Atlanta, Geo. – 25 miles from Chattanooga, Tenn. This Beautiful Watering Place, Is now Opened for the Reception of Visitors, and the Accommodations are ample for Five Hundred Persons. The Proprietors Have Spared No Expense to Make this Delightful Place the Saratoga of the South. They Have Secured the Services of a Celebrated German Brass Band, from Charleston, S. C. We say to all who wish to patronize Enterprising Men, and who wish to have a Watering Place in Georgia, second to none in the United States, Go to Cotoosa. If you love to hear good Music, and breathe the Pure Mountain Air, and drink the cool and healing waters of Life. Go to Cotoosa. These Springs possess Medicinal qualities in a remarkable degree, and are of unequalled variety, consisting of Fifty-Two Springs. The Proprietors will give their Personal attention. Mattey, Hickman & M’Donald.
[N.p., n.d. circa 1850] broadside, measuring 14 x 10 ⅜ inches, text printed in blue ink on light blue paper stock, in a variety of type fonts and sizes, illustrated with a cut of the Cotoosa Springs establishment, all within a typographic border. Formerly folded, the broadside was mailed to a Maj. Bunch in Tuscumbia, Alabama, with postal markings on verso, in very good clean condition.
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There
is very little known about this mineral spring resort. The broadside can be
dated prior to December 1853 when Cotoosa County was organized and split off from
adjacent Walker County. A post office was established in Cotoosa Springs in
1853. During the Civil War a Confederate Hospital was established in Cotoosa
Springs and was in operation until circa 1864 when it was occupied by Federal
forces.
The broadside Is unrecorded and unlocated in OCLC. We can find no printed
information on Cotoosa Springs in OCLC at all.
