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White’s Mountain Bluegrass Park

White’s Mountain Bluegrass Park

St. Clair Springs, Alabama, known in years past as Cornelia, has a vivid and well documented historical reputation for the presentation of old music and good times. As a resort/recreation town, St. Clair Springs was flooded by summertime visitors who enjoyed the quiet gatherings around the mineral springs which gave the town its name. These gatherings were usually quite and orderly until some of the rowdier boys of the time would start sipping liquids other than spring water. As was inevitable the action rapidly escalated from mere verbal discussions to more strongly emphasized points of view. The resulting display of these four or five half-grown boys wrestling in a mineral spring quickly dispersed the milder-mannered visitors back to their quieter places of interest, to await another visit to the spring.

The two hotels of the town were often full by mid-day on Saturdays, but the side yards around them as well as the private dwellings often sprouted tents as the crowds were determined to stay the weekend. The shortage of lodging being of minor importance to many visitors, the few privately owned automobiles and the hack driven by Mr. Raymond Rodgers, transported and unloaded visitors into town at a rapid pace and the after sundown activities began to gain momentum.

The main attraction to St. Clair Springs was the lure of the medicinal values of the mineral springs but the recognized benefit derived by the great times of laughter and frivolity soon established a huge reputati ... view more »

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White’s Mountain Bluegrass Park

40 White’s Mountain Lane, Springville, AL 35146

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