Montvale Springs in eastern Tennessee developed from a mineral spring site on Chilhowee Mountain into one of the South’s best-known nineteenth-century resorts, later becoming a summer camp. After Daniel Davis Foute bought the property in 1832, it gained roads, a hotel, and connections that brought guests from Knoxville and beyond. Under Asa Watson, the vast Seven Gables Hotel made Montvale the region’s largest resort and earned it the name Saratoga of the South. The Civil War ended its first great era, and later revivals proved temporary. After the hotel burned in 1933, the site became a YMCA camp in 1947 and was later protected from redevelopment by an easement in 2012.