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Tatham Springs, Kentucky
Tatham Springs, Kentucky

Tatham Springs was a resort in Washington county on Carey Island on the Chaplin River at Glens Creek about 17 miles northeast of Springfield. The hotel was built circa 1893 and operated until 1918. It was used as a 4-H camp from 1941 to 1969. The abandoned hotel building burned in 2006. The name Tatham came from a local family. Carey's Mill operated at or near the same site before the spa. It was an early tunnel mill which used a tunnel from the river to direct water to the mill wheel.

A Montfort post office, named for a local family, opened nearby in 1886, was renamed Tatham Springs (or Spring) and moved in 1893, and closed in 1919.

Photo of Tatham Springs Hotel
Photograph of the Tatham Springs Hotel from the Kentucky Historic Resources Inventory, circa 1983.

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