Montvale Springs, 7 1/2 miles south, was a resort known as the Saratoga of the South in stagecoach days. It was first advertised in 1832, and Daniel Foute built a log hotel there in 1837. In 1853, Asa Watson of Mississippi built the Seven Gable Hotel. Sidney Lanier spent much of his boyhood there. The hotel burned in 1896, was rebuilt in 1898, and burned again in 1933. A boys summer camp is there now.