Radium Springs, Georgia

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Radium Springs is an unincorporated community located on the southeast outskirts of Albany in Dougherty County, Georgia, United States. It is part of the Albany, Georgia Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Radium Springs is best known as the location of one of the "Seven Natural Wonders of Georgia": the largest natural spring in the state. The deep blue waters of Radium Springs flow at 70,000 gallons (265,000 liters) per minute and empty into the Flint River. There is also an extensive underwater cavern system.

The water contains trace sources of radium and the temperature is 68 degrees Fahrenheit (20 degrees Celsius) year round.

Prior to the discovery of radium in the water in 1925, the site was known as "Blue Springs".

A casino was built overlooking the springs in the 1920s and Radium Springs was a popular spa and resort. Northerners on their way by train to spend winter in Florida often stopped to swim in the springs, which was thought to be healthful because of the radium element. The casino was severely damaged when the river flooded in 1994, and again in 1998, and was demolished in 2003.

The nearby Radium Country Club and Golf Course has been refurbished. The course was originally designed in 1927 by noted golf course architect John Law Kerr.

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v t e Municipalities and communities of Dougherty County, Georgia, United States

County seat: Albany

City	Albany

CDP	Putney

Unincorporated communities	Doublegate Pretoria Radium Springs

Protected areas of Georgia

Federal

National historic sites and military parks	Andersonville NHS • Jimmy Carter NHS • Martin Luther King, Jr. NHS • Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park • Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park

National monuments	Fort Frederica • Fort Pulaski • Ocmulgee

National forests	Chattahoochee • Oconee

National wildlife refuges	Banks Lake • Blackbeard Island • Bond Swamp • Eufaula • Harris Neck • Okefenokee • Piedmont • Savannah • Wassaw • Wolf Island

Wilderness Areas	Big Frog Wilderness • Blood Mountain Wilderness • Brasstown Wilderness • Cohutta Wilderness • Cumberland Island National Seashore • Ellicott Rock Wilderness • Mark Trail Wilderness • Okefenokee Wilderness • Raven Cliffs Wilderness • Rich Mountain Wilderness • Southern Nantahala Wilderness • Tray Mountain Wilderness •

Wild and Scenic Rivers	Chattooga River

National Trails	Appalachian Trail • Pinhoti National Recreation Trail

Other protected areas	Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area • Cumberland Island National Seashore • Gray's Reef National Marine Sanctuary • Sapelo Island National Estuarine Research Reserve

State

Parks	Amicalola Falls • Black Rock Mountain • Bobby Brown • Buck Shoals • Chattahoochee Bend • Cloudland Canyon • Crooked River • Don Carter • Elijah Clark • F.D. Roosevelt • Florence Marina • Fort Mountain • Fort Yargo • General Coffee • George L. Smith • George T. Bagby • Georgia Veterans • Gordonia-Alatamaha • Hamburg • Hard Labor Creek • Hart • High Falls • Indian Springs • James H. "Sloppy" Floyd • John Tanner • Laura S. Walker • Little Ocmulgee • Magnolia Springs • Mistletoe • Moccasin Creek • Panola Mountain • Providence Canyon • Red Top Mountain • Reed Bingham • Richard B. Russell • Sapelo Island • Seminole • Skidaway Island • Smithgall Woods • Sprewell Bluff • Standing Boy Creek • Stephen C. Foster • Sweetwater Creek • Tallulah Gorge • Tugaloo • Unicoi • Victoria Bryant • Vogel • Watson Mill Bridge

Historic parks and sites	A.H. Stephens • Chief Vann House • Dahlonega Gold Museum • Etowah Indian Mounds • Fort McAllister • Fort King George • Fort Morris • Hofwyl-Broadfield Plantation • Jarrell Plantation • Jefferson Davis Memorial • Kolomoki Mounds • Lapham-Patterson House • Little White House • New Echota • Pickett's Mill Battlefield • Robert Toombs House • Travelers Rest • Wormsloe

Forests	Baldwin • Bartram • Brender-Hitchiti • Dixon Memorial • Dawson • Hightower • Paulding • Spirit Creek

Other	Centennial Olympic Park • Charlie Elliott Wildlife Center • Jekyll Island • Lake Lanier Islands • Okefenokee Swamp • Radium Springs • Sapelo Island • Stone Mountain Park

County,
Municipal
and Other

Parks	Cobb County Parks • McIntosh Reserve • Murphey Candler Park • Okefenokee Swamp Park • Robert G. Hunter Memorial Park • Seaborn Jones Memorial Park • Shaking Rock Park · The Parks at Chehaw

Forests & Nature Preserves	Autrey Mill Nature Preserve & Heritage Center • Fernbank Forest • Marshall Forest • Morningside Nature Preserve • Reynolds Nature Preserve

Nature & Environmental Education Centers	Chattahoochee Nature Center • Savannah-Ogeechee Canal Museum & Nature Center