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Montvale Springs is a location in Blount County, Tennessee, United States, that was once the site of a fashionable resort hotel, and is now a summer camp. ==Early years== It is said that Sam Houston, later president of the Republic of Texas, discovered the springs that gave the resort its name. The vicinity of Montvale Springs was used as the locale for the novel by Charles W. Todd, ''Woodville; Or Anchoret Reclaimed'' (1832). In 1832 the local entrepreneur Daniel Davis Foute bought of land on Chilhowee Mountain, including a black sulphur spring, and built a ten-room log hotel. Foute used Cherokee laborers to build roads to connect the hotel to turnpikes to Georgia and North Carolina. He planted vineyards and orchards. The hotel was first advertised in 1832. It was described as a "resort hotel and spa". The two story building was "pretentious rustic" in style. The hotel attracted a wealthy clientele from throughout the Cumberland Valley and the lower Mississippi Basin. They came to relax with their families and to drink "... the healing waters of the springs." A stage line from Knoxville to Montvale was open by 1837. If guests caught the 6:30 AM stage coach in Knoxville they would reach the hotel in time for lunch at noon. In the 1840s the hotel included a store. Foute is listed as operating a post office at "Montvail Springs" in 1846. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Montvale Springs」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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