Q: What is the story behind Sealy Hot Mineral Springs?
A: According to a marker erected in 2010 by the Alabama Tourism Department and the Town of Cottonwood at the intersection of State Road 53 and Houston County Road 55, the 1920s saw an interest in drilling for crude oil in the area.
People are also reading… The resort that brothers J.R. and C.S. Sealy started constructing in 1936 near Cottonwood “became a popular tourist destination because of the alleged restorative power of the mineral water.” Cox wrote that Sealy Well No. 1 penetrated to depths of nearly 5,000 feet before the drilling was called to a halt. “One of the last drill bits, however, struck something that proved almost as valuable as oil - hot water,” the blog says.Nine years ago on the Sealy farm about three-fourths of a mile from Cottonwood, a well was started in search for oil.
So many people - more than 10,000 in 1936-1937 – visited Sealy Springs that almost the entire town of Cottonwood"was turned into a big rooming house to care for the overflow of people who came for bathing and treatment in the healing waters of the well."
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