1996

Magnesia Springs

Our family at Magnesia Springs

In early 1996 my uncle Gary Junior bought Magnesia Springs. Magnesia Spring is a fourth-magnitude springs located east of Gainesville and was a popular place when I was a child for families to go swimming. Our family was at Magnesia Springs in 1959 when I was running around the pool when I slipped, fell and cut my head and had to have five stitches, (see story). When Uncle Gary bought the place in 1996 it had been closed for many years and Gary described the pool as being so filled with debris that ir was like a swamp with trees growing out of it. Gary spent several months cleaning up the pool and grounds, restoring the springs to its former beauty.  Mom wrote in  November of 1996, “Later on in the day about 20 of us piled into cars and went out to see what Gary had done to restore Magnesia Springs which he bought early this year.”

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