White Springs

TRAVELERS FROM FAR AND WIDE VISIT

FLORIDA’S BEACHES EACH YEAR, BUT ONE OF THE

STATE’S EARLIEST TOURIST ATTRACTIONS WAS LOCATED

AT A SITE NEAR THE SUWANNEE RIVER.

LONG REVERED FOR ITS HEALING POWERS,

WHITE SPRINGS EMERGED AS A TOURIST DESTINATION

SHORTLY AFTER BRYANT AND ELIZABETH ...

White Springs

Known as "Florida's First Tourist Destination," the town of Whites Springs exhibits the opulence of a bygone era--that of America's Gilded Age when the nation's industry and wealth were on the rise and its people were on the move. The ...

White Sulphur Springs

Situated on what was once a Mexican Land Grant to Dr. Edward Bale, White Sulphur Springs was discovered in 1848 and a resort was opened in 1852, making this California’s oldest. Wealthy San Franciscans traveled here in the latter half ...

The Residents of White Springs

Florida's native Timucuan Indians lived for hundreds of generations in what is now north Florida and southeast Georgia. Beginning in the 1580s, they were organized into mission villages by Spanish Franciscan priests. While exploitation and epidemics caused native populations to ...

Wars and Conflicts in White Springs

Although residents living here have always been somewhat insulated, outside influences such as war and conflict have historically influenced the Town of White Springs. The Spanish, French, British, and Americans all fought wars to won the peninsula of Florida. The ...

White Springs

These sulphur springs were thought to have medicinal properties and were considered sacred by the Indians. Warriors wounded in battle reputedly were not attacked when they came here to recuperate. Settlers moved into the vicinity in 1826 and the springs ...

Montgomery White Sulphur Springs

Near here stood Montgomery White Sulphur Springs, popular resort area of 19th century America. During the Civil War the resort was converted into a military hospital staffed by Catholic nuns. Several hundred victims of smallpox including nurses and soldiers are ...