Bon Aqua, Tennessee Explained

Official Name:Bon Aqua, Tennessee
Settlement Type:Unincorporated community
Pushpin Map:Tennessee#USA
Pushpin Label:Bon Aqua
Pushpin Label Position:bottom
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name:United States
Subdivision Type1:State
Subdivision Name1:Tennessee
Subdivision Type2:County
Subdivision Name2:Hickman
Timezone:Central (CST)
Utc Offset:-6
Timezone Dst:CDT
Utc Offset Dst:-5
Elevation Ft:837
Coordinates:35.9533°N -87.3269°W
Postal Code Type:ZIP code
Postal Code:37025
Area Code:931
Blank Name:GNIS feature ID
Blank Info:1305340

Bon Aqua is an unincorporated community in Hickman County, Tennessee, United States. Bon Aqua is located in northern Hickman County, 9.2miles south-southeast of Dickson.[1] It also covers parts of Southeast Dickson county, and parts of Western Williamson county. Bon Aqua has a post office with ZIP code 37025, which opened on March 5, 1842.[2] [3]

The community was named for the "good water" of a nearby mineral spring.[4] [5] Remnants of the former mineral springs resort are preserved as the Bon Aqua Springs Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Phillip Van Horn Weems was a major of the 11th Tennessee, he owned Bon Aqua Springs before the war, Weems was killed in the Battle of Atlanta and in the 1880s was exhumed from the CS cemetery in Griffin, GA, and brought back in a vinegar barrel by wagon and buried in the family cemetery located at the end of Weems Cemetery road near Bon Aqua Springs.

Country Music legend Johnny Cash had owned Weems' old farmhouse for over three decades, and The Storytellers Museum, which converted from a general store and recording studio that Johnny Cash used as a place for local concerts, has now become a new landmark of Bon Aqua.

Notes and References

  1. . Hickman County, Tennessee General Highway Map . PDF . 2006 . June 25, 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120427163537/http://www.tdot.state.tn.us/Maps/county/co41.pdf . April 27, 2012 . dead .
  2. Web site: USPS - Look Up a ZIP Code . February 15, 2012 . United States Postal Service . 2012.
  3. Web site: Postmaster Finder - Post Offices by ZIP Code. United States Postal Service. June 25, 2012. October 17, 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20201017172656/https://webpmt.usps.gov/pmt008.cfm. dead.
  4. Book: Spence. W. Jerome D.. Spence. David L.. A History of Hickman County, Tennessee. 1900. Southern Historical Press. 978-0-89308-242-0. 183.
  5. Book: Miller, Larry L.. Tennessee Place-names. 2001. Indiana University Press. 0-253-21478-5. 26.