In 1804 there was the Twin Springs Hotel resort, later named Mineral Springs Hotel in 1810 (known as the Crowninshield Estate, then Fay Estate) was erected as a water place hotel, a popular watering spot for Bostonians, romantic in extreme, surrounded by green hills and woods, built near a beautiful lakelet named Spring Pond with a ferruginous spring. It's waters were once recognized as possessing valuable medicinal qualities. Lodgers and Patients traveled from a far and near to drink from the rusty iron rich water. In some years, people went there to worship the goddess Hygeia and worship at the shrines of Bacchus and Venus, to restore their health. Horse races and gentlemen’s sports made the hostlery known far and wide. This "Classical Worship" damaged the reputation of the Hotel and it was soon later transformed into the private summer residence of Richard Sullivan Fay, Esq. in 1847. The old Spring Pond Road where horse and carriage passed, still remains as a dirt path on the Lynn and Salem Side, but has been turned into asphalt near the Peabody border.
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