History and Haunting of the Mentone Area is the Third Volume in the series Haunted Southern Nights® by Deborah Collard. Deborah will so enjoy this time with you as she shares a bit of history and a few hauntings from the gorgeous LookOut Mountain area surrounding Mentone, Alabama.
History and Haunting of the Mentone Area is the Third Volume in the series Haunted Southern Nights® by Deborah Collard. Deborah will so enjoy this time with you as she shares a bit of history and a few hauntings from the gorgeous LookOut Mountain area surrounding Mentone, Alabama. Mentone, a town that captures the heart of any visitor has deeply captured hers and doesn't intend to let go. From the secrets of the healing springs to who truly discovered America first, this area has so much to offer the genealogical enthusiast as well as the adventurer not to mention the romantic at heart. As you take this journey with Deborah open your mind to all that it is about to be overwhelmed by. And yes, before you even have to ask...there will be a sequel. Deborah has her own saying for Mentone. There is NO time in Mentone, so leave your watch at home.....Deborah Collard.
Excerpt
This is now all that remains of the once infamous Mentone Springs. The Mentone Springs that have been in existence for years no longer run due to the error of man there is only a trickle of water now unfortunately. There were actually two springs in Mentone. The second spring, “Beauty Springs” is owned by Alex and Honey Glover.
Back many years ago when Highway 117 was being built there was blasting done on the side of the mountain. The best we know is that during this blasting a shift of the surface of the ground and its underlying sandstone crimped the black iron pipe used for the water to run was crushed leaving the springs to run no more.
The Mentone Springs owned by Dr. Frank J. Caldwell was used as a “healing springs”. Dr. Caldwell came to Mentone at first as a boarder in the house of the John Mason family following his first wife’s death and during that time he built the “Mineral Springs Hotel”. Dr. Caldwell felt strongly about the use of these “healing springs” as he felt their result as had John Mason who is considered the founder of Mentone.
This is the story of the author’s great great grandparents, Edward Lewis and Sarah Crosby, who were convicts transported to Van Diemen’s Land in the 1840s. It is told from the perspective of a detective agency searching for what happened to Edward, w
