The Fall of Brunswick Springs

By 1820, there were 12 Brunswick families, hosting borders as patience and running their operations around the rumored properties of the springs. They claimed that the spring water could cure almost everything, from tuberculosis and kidney disease to rheumatism and glandular problems. When a railroad was built through the area, the spring water tourism hit a fever pitch. A man named Charles Bailey arrived in town in 1860 and built a hotel there called the Brunswick Springs House which went up in flames in 1894. D.C. Rawl not only ran the hotel, but followed in that original legendary soldiers' footsteps. He bottled up and sold the springs water. And maybe he didn't know about the curse