William Jackson, while hunting during the late 1700’s, discovered a spring, which would be later known as Jackson Springs. The water from this spring was advertised as a remedy for all debilitating causes and people flocked to the area to purchase it. Half-gallon and gallon bottles from the new bottling plants were shipped far and wide. At the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair the water from this spring won silver medal for the second best medicinal water in America. In 1890 a health spa and resort, known as the Jackson Springs Hotel, was built around the spring to include tennis courts, a 100-room hotel, and a 9-hole golf course. Plans to remodel the hotel and hire Donald Ross to build an 18-hole golf course had to be abandoned due to the onset of the Great Depression. The resort began to decline after the hotel was destroyed by fire in 1932…however it became a prototype of Moore County’s future.