The Omaha Springs Hotel (built in the early 1900s) is among the last surviving resort hotels of the mineral springs era, a time when the purported healing properties of the state’s abundant natural springs attracted visitors from all over the country. Many locations featured hotels and cabins but most have long been demolished. In A Preliminary Report on the Mineral Springs of Georgia (Atlanta, 1913), state geologist S. W. McCallie noted: This group of springs…are situated in a dense grove at the base of a rather precipitous hill-slope…One of the largest of the springs from which a sample of water was secured for analysis flows something like 100 gallons per minute. The main improvement consists of a well-built hotel of 24 rooms. The water from these springs is said to have a considerable sale in Augusta…and is well suited as a table water.
The structure is a private residence and can only be seen from a gate. Without the longtime stewardship of the Fleming family, who owned and maintained the property for decades, this treasure would surely have not survived.
Loved going there growing up. I still swear that was the best tasting and the coldest water. Lol
I looked up this site because I was hit by lightening there as a child. It was a very traumatic event for me and no one in my family ever talked about it. I must have been around 9 which made it about 1958 give or take. I have always been interested in whether somebody recorded the event. I know that a doctor that was staying at the hotel came to look at me and said that he thought I would be okay. My aunt, who was a first grade teacher, was concerned that it would affect my intellect. On the off chance that you might happen to have any information, it would be appreciated
I believe the doctor was Dr. Bennett.
Just as Beautiful on the inside as the out! Could you reach out to me? I have some properties in Avera, GA not far from Omaha that you may be interested in.
Heather, if you don’t hear from me soon, please email me at wbrianbrown@gmail.com
That water was COLD!!!
I grew up going to Omaha springs every week to get water with my grandmother and we would play in the stream created by the spring we loved about a mile down the road toward Gibson brings back a lot of memory