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. To this day Summit Spring remains a Maine-family-owned and operated business.
Over two-hundred years of recorded history sheds light on this unusual spring, its water and the people that traveled (some even from foreign lands) to come and partake of what they believed to be restorative, revitalizing and healing water. The 1905 Centennial Historic record, documents the following about the spring, “…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.”
Thus, we take great pride in preserving and caring for this rare natural resource.
