Gary Springs, Alabama

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Gary Springs, Alabama
Unincorporated community
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Coordinates: 32°58′03″N87°05′17″W / 32.96750°N 87.08806°W / 32.96750; -87.08806
Country United States
State Alabama
County Bibb
Elevation
315 ft (96 m)
Time zone UTC-6 (Central (CST))
 • Summer (DST) UTC-5 (CDT)
Area code(s) 205, 659
GNIS feature ID159654 [1]

Gary Springs (also Brown Springs,Garey Springs) is an unincorporated community in Bibb County, Alabama, United States. [1]

The community is named for the mineral springs located there. The water from the springs contains large quantities of epsom salts. [2] The springs were named for Dr. Thomas P. Gary, a physician from Selma who developed the springs. [3]

References

  1. 1 2 "Gary Springs, Alabama". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
  2. ↑ Smith, Eugene Allen; McCalley, Henry (1904). Index to the Mineral Resources of Alabama. Montgomery, Alabama: State of Alabama. p. 73.
  3. ↑ Ellison, Rhoda C. (1999). Bibb County, Alabama: The First Hundred Years. Tuscaloosa, Alabama: University of Alabama Press. p. 5. ISBN   9780817309879.
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