Bon Aqua is an

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...

Hickman County, Tennessee Hickman County is a county located in the U.S. state of Tennessee. As of the 2020 Census, the population was 24,925. Its county seat is Centerville. As of 2023, Hickman County is part of the Nashville–Davidson– Murfreesboro– Franklin, ...

, United States. Bon Aqua is located in northern Hickman County, south-southeast of Dickson. It also covers parts of southeast Dickson county, and parts of western Williamson county. Bon Aqua has a

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with ZIP code 37025, which opened on March 5, 1842. The community was named for the "good water" of a nearby

mineral spring Mineral springs are naturally occurring springs that produce hard water, water that contains dissolved minerals. Salts, sulfur compounds, and gases are among the substances that can be dissolved in the spring water during its passage un ...

. Remnants of the former mineral springs resort are preserved as the

Bon Aqua Springs Historic District The Bon Aqua Springs Historic District near Bon Aqua, Tennessee is a historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990. The listing included six contributing buildings In the law regulating historic ...

, listed on the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the Federal government of the United States, United States federal government's official United States National Register of Historic Places listings, list of sites, buildings, structures, Hist ...

. Phillip Van Horn Weems was a major of the 11th Tennessee, he owned

Bon Aqua Springs The Bon Aqua Springs Historic District near Bon Aqua, Tennessee is a historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990. The listing included six contributing buildings In the law regulating historic ...

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 John R. Cash (born J. R. Cash; February 26, 1932 – September 12, 2003) was an American singer-songwriter. Most of his music contains themes of sorrow, moral tribulation, and redemption, especially songs from the later stages of his career. ...

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.

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Unincorporated communities in Hickman County, Tennessee Unincorporated communities in Tennessee {{HickmanCountyTN-geo-stub