Yellow Sulphur Springs was developed on a modest scale by Jesse Kerr in 1859. In 1885, Nathan McCoy, of Indiana, built an elaborate hotel here. John Hanlon took it over in 1900, and operated it until the outbreak of World War I. It burned in 1933.

Marker is at the intersection of Caldenwood Highway (U.S. 129) and 6 Mile Road (Tennessee Route 336), on the left when traveling south on Caldenwood Highway.

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