Cascade Mutual Utilities Corporation
When corporate power monopolies refused to electrify the rural fringes of Southwest Atlanta in 1920, local residents organized their own grassroots utility.
John H. Zaring Sr.
Driven by grief, tuberculosis, and entrepreneurial ambition, the Zaring family spent over six decades bottling mineral water and shaping Cascade Springs.
Cascade Springs
Today spanning 135 acres of old-growth forest, Cascade Springs evolved from an active Civil War battleground and 1920s resort into a protected nature sanctuary.