Site of Piedmont Springs Resort

FM 3090, Anderson, TX, USA

Texas, USA

MARKER

TICKETED:

PARKING:

RESTROOMS:

EST. 1850

1850

HISTORIC PEOPLE WHO WERE HERE

0 HISTORIC PRESERVATION at Site of Piedmont Springs Resort.

The Texas Historical Commission Atlas records this marker as missing at the listed location. It remains part of the state marker inventory; the placement description and coordinates in this row follow the current official Atlas record and should be field-verified before publication.

About Site of Piedmont Springs Resort

Piedmont Springs Resort opened around 1850 as a health spa built around sulphur springs, with a four-story, hundred-room hotel erected about 1860. The hotel was a social center where Sam Houston once danced, and in 1865 it became a Confederate hospital and headquarters. It closed after financial losses in the 1870s panic.

HISTORY HAPPENED HERE at Site of Piedmont Springs Resort

In operation as early as 1850 as health spa and resort because of three nearby sulphur springs (varying in taste from mild to strong). Numerous drinking places and bathhouses allowed guests to move freely about grounds. Grand four-story hotel with 100 rooms, built about 1860, was social center for area, where guests enjoyed billiards, poker, horse races, and Gen. Sam Houston once danced the Minuet. In 1865, hotel became hospital, headquarters for John G. Walker's "Greyhound Division", Confederate army. Owner closed the building after losing money in panic, 1870s. (1967) Source: https://atlas.thc.texas.gov/Details/5185008609