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A new roof is finally on the Pavilion at McNair Springs! The Parks and Rec Department are working hard to clean up the park. I honestly think you can take your family for a picnic at the pavilion. Kendell Everett, local contractor, did a great job on the roof.
If you are a “park goer,” always bring a trash bag—we need everyone to help keep the park clean. Also, bring jugs to fill and take home! The water is awesome!
Some people in our city are not interested the upkeep and development of McNair Springs. I am interested! I feel McNair Springs could become a tourist site! People are always looking for “nature” stuff…and we are sitting on top of nature. As with anything, money is needed. Hopefully, grants can be secured.
Simpson County is located in the Gulf Coastal Plain within the Pearl River watershed, and is graced with numerous rivers, streams, and springs. One such spring is McNair Springs, which along with Saratoga Springs, feeds the Okatoma Creek, a noted regional recreational waterway. Traditionally, the name Okatoma is attributed to Choctaw words meaning “radiant water.”
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.
Today, McNair Springs is the center of a park built by the City of Magee. Although no longer supplying drinking water to Sanatorium or Magee, the spring still produces approximately 400 gallons of clear spring
Whether one is interested in the history or the natural beauty of the area, a visit to Magee is incomplete without a visit to McNair Springs. McNair Springs is located approximately one-half mile from U. S. Highway 49 South off Siloam Road within the city limits of Magee.
(from The Historical Marker Database)
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