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The City of Magee, Keep Magee Beautiful, and the Magee Chamber of Commerce are joining forces to clean up McNair Springs! The cleaning will take place on Saturday, February 9, 2019.
Teenagers from area churches will participate in the project.
Anyone wishing to be apart of the cleaning of McNair Springs, may join the group.
Today, McNair Springs is the center of a park built by the City of Magee.
Although no longer supplying drinking water to the Sanatorium or Magee, the spring still produces approximately 400 gallons of clear spring water per minute. (Historical Marker Project.com)
McNair Springs and its associated waterways are central to the history of Magee. The beginnings of Magee date to 1840, when Willie Magee built his gristmill on Little Goodwater Creek. Early in the 1900s, the Gulf and Ship Island Railroad built a fine hotel at the springs, equipped with its own water works and spring-fed pools. In addition, a bottled water manufacturing plant was built around the same time. When the Sanatorium was built, McNair Springs supplied it, as well as the town of Magee, with drinking water.
McNair Springs is located approximately one-half mile from U. S. Highway 49 South off Siloam Road within the city limits of Magee.
(Message from Sue: The park is beautiful…but a mess. We must keep this beautiful natural beauty in the City of Magee clean)