Athens Big Spring Memorial Park

Dedicated to the early settlers, men and women who served in the armed forces and kept our country free. August 12, 1989.

Marker can be reached from Beaty Street North east of Market Street/Buck Island Road.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Big Spring Park

Asa Prior, born in Virginia about 1785, pioneered into this valley and purchased a large tract of land including this spring and Cedar Creek in 1834. In 1852 he deeded the spring and 10 adjacent acres to the City of ...