Bottled Water of the World

Summit Spring is an extremely rare geologic phenomenon. The free-flowing spring is located on the highest ground in Cumberland County, Maine. on a bedrock fracture. The "Eagle" in the logo is representative of the fact that Summit Hill was a breading ground for this raptor in the early 1900's. Summit Spring is still captured in the original stone spring house built to protect the source in 1936. The water is gravity fed to the bottling facility located just 50 feet away. The new bottling facility is in the same place as the original wooden barreling facility built in the 1800's.

The water of Summit Spring bubbles to the surface naturally, without using pumps, boreholes or other environmentally destructive means. On arrival the water has been filtered thorough thousands of feet of sand and gravel and pushed to the surface.

Summit Spring is the only bottled water company ever allowed membership in the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association (MOFGA), an organization long respected for its high standards and strict membership requirements.

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History of Summit Spring
Summit Spring is one of the oldest and most revered natural spring sources in North America; its water is documented in texts dating back to 1792.

In the 1800s Summit Spring water was sold as a healing tonic with claims that it relieved a host of common maladies, from arthritis to nervous disorders. It was put up in wood barrels and glass bottles and shipped by wagon, steamer, train, and ocean liner to major cities around the US and even in Europe.

In 1888 a 55-room hotel was built near the spring, and for decades tourists from New York and Boston traveled to the spring to “take the waters.” Today we bring you the same pure and natural spring water that’s been bubbling from the ground for as long as anyone knows, at a constant rate of 38 gallons per minute and a steady year-round temperature of 46 degrees.

Taken from the historic record of Harrison, Maine incorporated as a town in 1805: "to drink of God's only beverage for man or beast at Summit Spring, that fountain of life, the drinking from which will renew the youth of the old, if any such a place was ever created...", "…one of the most remarkable springs ever discovered in New England."

Reprinted from a brochure in 1881: "It is on a summit (from which the water derives its name) nearly 1,000 feet above the sea, overlooking 2,000 square miles of mountain, forest, field and lake. The water of the spring flows uniformly 38 gallons per minute, at a temperature of 42 degrees F, summer and winter, and is not impaired in taste or healing virtue by transportation or long keeping. The spring is a natural wonder, and will well repay a visit; but the water will do its work wherever drank. From farm to farm its reputation spread, then to neighboring villages, and soon to leading cities. Summit water was put up and sold in 35 gallon spruce barrels as far back as 1875, much of the wood for the barrels being cut from the forest adjoining the spring." "It was taken by horse-drawn carriage to the narrow gauge railway in Norway, Maine and transported by train to Boston and on to Europe by way of the Holland-America line."