The ghostly remains of the spring pool in what was once a famous resort. Aaron Sirmons says the owner told him when her father bought the place in the 1960s, the spring was already destroyed. The Brooks County Manager told me somebody tried to enlarge it and destroyed it. It looks like maybe they used dynamite.
Wade Spring is actually easily visible from Blue Springs Road in Brooks County, Georgia, if you know just where to peer through the bushes. That’s at a culvert under the road, at about 30.789789, -83.455695, maybe a hundred feet before the fallen tree and the washout marks as far as you can drive. Yes, that’s on the way to Spook Bridge across the Withlacoochee River.
Maybe Brooks County could pick up some of the trash along the road right of way.
Many thanks to Aaron Sirmons for arranging this visit to the ghost of Wade Spring. Here are the pictures he sent previously. Please don’t go wandering around there without permission.
Here are a few videos:
Wade Spring was a famous resort; more than a century ago that a railroad was built just to go to it. It was one of three second magnitude springs on the Withlacoochee River between US 84 and the GA-FL line.
More pictures are below.
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Wall visible from road
Spring visible from road
Trash
Box culvert under road
Leads down northwards
To the spring
Aaron Sirmans, who got permission to visit
Wall damage
Wall damage closeup
Tire in spring
Movie: Looking around from inside the spring pool wall (35M)
Tire
Aaron Sirmans at Wade Spring
Wade Spring; we could hear frogs and water in there
That wall also looks damaged
Movie: Around from the spring (17M)
Wade Spring with Aaron Sirmans as reference human
Movie: Closeup on the spring (29M)
Why you cant see any of this on google maps
Nice canopy
Swing cable
More spring pool wall
Trash east of spring
Trash tire
Trash under palmetto
Freezer in palmettos
Freezer
Trash on road bank
Woodpecker holes and trash
Trash again
Spring from east wall
Spring from east
Pump pipe?
Looking back towards road
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That is awesome! I like your directions. I think I found it on Google Earth. Sadly, at the rate we are going in Florida, one hundred years from now, people might be looking at the ghost of Rainbow Springs, just like Wade Springs.