My Family’s Business Since 1866

“Dr. George Adcock Carter, my great-grandfather, began selling and delivering bottled spring water in the Danville, Va area in 1866,” according to Robert Douglas, owner of Mountain Park Spring Water. Dr. Carter, a Civil War surgeon, was responsible for the care of Union soldiers imprisoned in Chatham, VA. He discovered that the illness rate of the soldiers lowered dramatically when given fresh clean spring water from his nearby farm.

After the war, Dr. Carter and his son opened Carter’s Spring Company, a bottled water delivery business that flourished from 1866 until the 1970’s.

“In 1974, I moved into an older home with small children, and discovered that my tap water was over the limit for heavy metals such as lead, cobalt, mercury and selenium from the old pipes in the home and neighborhood. I decided to follow in my great-grandfather’s footsteps and sought out a water source in Mountain Park, NC, in an area known by the locals as Good Springs. By 1979, I had a prospering bottled water business based in the Piedmont Triad area of North Carolina.”

Since 1979, Mountain Park Spring Water, Inc has grown to serve the cities of Winston-Salem, Greensboro & High Point, NC and Stuart, Martinsville, Chatham & Danville, VA, as well as, points in-between.

Mountain Park continues to be a family affair as Robert's two sons, Andrew and Stewart, now handle the day to day operations of the business. 

"We have always focused on the customer and their needs.  We [Robert, Stewart, or Andrew] continue to personally answer the phone and respond to emails.  We were the first bottled water company in the area to offer bottles with handles in 2000.  And we are the first area bottled water company to offer BPA-Free bottles.  We always put the needs of the customer first."