WARREN COUNTY, GA - HISTORY BEALL SPRINGS ***************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm *********************** This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Annie Beall Located nine miles southeast of Warrenton is Beall Springs, at one time a popular summer resort. It took its name from the family in whose possession it remained for more than one hundred years. The waters were found to be curative powers for indigestion, kidney, stomach and skin disease. It was very popular through a number of yeard and in 1880, Alex Stephens and Bob Toombs were guests of Col Augustus Beall. At that time the hotel was filled to capacity and small cottages were owned by families who did light housekeeping. Then, the luxuries of water systems, electric lights, etc. had not become necessities, as is the case today, and boarders were willing to live a semi-camp life, enjoy the fine meals that were served, and receive the benefit of the water boht internally and externally. A constant flow of water, unaffected by freshet or droughts, gave healing to many suffering patients. In its natural beauty, unadorned by man, the scenery was pictureque. The hotel occupied a site on the summit of a hill and a terraced walk extended to the spring. Beall Springs originally belongs to the Indian; but when Gen Mannam Beall emigrated from Scotland to Maryland and eventually to Georgia, the tract of land was known as government land and was claimed by Gen Beall. The land was claimed on account of the spring, for in those days wells were considered a luxury. Mannam Beall was a Revolutionary soldier. (note: his Rev War records indicate he was a private) He had three sons: Robert, Samuel, and Francis. It was Francis, a carpenter of unusual ability, who in 1797, build the wooden dwelling overlooking the spring. Francis Beall married Sara Gregroy in 1768. They had two sons, Augustus and Elias and five daughters, Emily, Harriet, Martha, Susan and Frances. Elias Beall went to Texas in 1839. Augustus born in Warren County at Beall Springs in 1804, married Minerva Massey in 1829. He fought in the Indian War and was there made a Colonel. He died in 1872, the estate going to his wife Minerva Massey Beall. A number of years later the home site and spring were bought from the from the heirs by Nathan Johnson, who used it as a home , In 1970 the Beall Springs Resort area was restored by the Warrenton Kiwanis Club. The . hotel burned about 1940 .