Fayette Spring, or Warm Creek as it was first called

April 1861 five families came to Warm Creek (now Fayette), built shelters and began to build a settlement.

The creek, carrying the precious water was the determining factor in the settlement of Fayette. A gristmill was run from 1863 until 1894. All the water from the spring was used to run the gristmill. Beyond the mill it was divided for irrigating the fields, gardens, and for culinary use.

The temperature of the spring is about 61 degrees. Winter weather doesn’t freeze it over. Watercress grows in the spring in abundance and it has been a picnic area for the townspeople over the years.

The spring, which James Mellor and Joseph Bartholomew bought from Chief Arropene in 1861, has been the “life blood” of the people in this community; it also has been the chief recreation site in the area.

People, who have grown up here and moved away, usually bring their children back to the spring to wade in the stream and roll hard-boiled eggs down the sand hills.