Carolina Mountain Spring Water

Deep within the Nantahala National Forest in North Carolina, The Carolina Mountain Spring Water Company purchased fifty acres. The property, at 3,600 feet above sea level, is within a valley surrounded by National Forest land and no other private property is in the watershed.

The spring, bordered by Terrapin Mountain, has been known to travelers since the Civil War. The Rice family purchased the land and in the years that followed the government purchased all the surrounding property. The in 1971, the founder of The Carolina Mountain Spring Water Company, Inc., realizing that this Rice property had total watershed protection began to contact numerous heirs of the Rice family throughout the United States. After long and protracted negotiations the land was purchased in 1972.

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