Bon Aqua, Tennessee

Unincorporated community in Tennessee, United States

35°57′12″N 87°19′37″W / 35.95333°N 87.32694°W / 35.95333; -87.32694CountryUnited StatesStateTennesseeCountyHickmanElevation

837 ft (255 m)Time zoneUTC-6 (Central (CST)) • Summer (DST)UTC-5 (CDT)ZIP code

37025

Area code931GNIS feature ID1305340^[1]

Bon Aqua is an unincorporated community in Hickman County, Tennessee, United States. Bon Aqua is located in northern Hickman County, 9.2 miles (14.8 km) south-southeast of Dickson.^[2] 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.^[3]^[4]

The community was named for the "good water" of a nearby mineral spring.^[5]^[6] 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.

References

^ "Bon Aqua". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
^ Hickman County, Tennessee General Highway Map (PDF) (Map). Tennessee Department of Transportation. 2006. Archived from the original (PDF) on April 27, 2012. Retrieved June 25, 2012.
^ United States Postal Service (2012). "USPS - Look Up a ZIP Code". Retrieved February 15, 2012.
^ "Postmaster Finder - Post Offices by ZIP Code". United States Postal Service. Archived from the original on October 17, 2020. Retrieved June 25, 2012.
^ Spence, W. Jerome D.; Spence, David L. (1900). A History of Hickman County, Tennessee. Southern Historical Press. p. 183. ISBN 978-0-89308-242-0.
^ Miller, Larry L. (2001). Tennessee Place-names. Indiana University Press. p. 26. ISBN 0-253-21478-5.