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The area was first surveyed and land grants were first awarded in the mid 1780s.
The first post office was established in 1829 and was named the Salt Lick Creek post office.
In 1847, the post office was renamed " Red Boiling Springs.
" Sometime in the 1830s, a farmer named Jesse Jones noticed red-colored sulphur water bubbling up from springs on his farm.
In 1844, a businessman named Samuel Hare, realizing the springs ' commercial potential, purchased a plot of the Jones farm surrounding the springs, and constructed an inn.
The inn's remote location and the region's poor roads likely doomed the venture, however, and the inn was gone by the 1870s.
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