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Mountain Valley
Spring Water
Bottled Water Company located in Hot Springs,
Garland County, Arkansas
This building was constructed in
1910 as the home of the DeSoto Spring Company.
The first floor was used as a drinking pavilion
for people to enjoy a taste of fresh spring
water. There was not a mezzanine or third level
at this time.
Thousands of people and
businesses throughout the United States have
Arkansas ties to the longest continually
operated
bottled water company in the United States,
Mountain Valley Spring Water.
The earliest records date back
to the territorial days of Arkansas when it was
known locally as Lockett's Spring and owned by
Ben Lockett and his son, Enoch.
Since 1871, this Arkansas company has
bottled spring water from a single natural
spring source that is naturally high in pH and
natural minerals. It is a cold water
spring, unlike many of the other springs in Hot
Springs.
I was told that this is the
actual location of the spring. These two
photographs look very similar but the current
spring cover is in a room 8 x 10 feet or so,
whereas the top photograph is in a much larger
room. Possibly there were two or the top
one was for decoration.
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