Seminole Hot Springs, California

The settlement began as a resort built around a hot spring. The springs were first identified in 1911, and the spa closed in 1959.{{Cite web |last=Morrison |first=Patt |author-link=Patt Morrison |date=2021-12-28 |title=From sacred to profane: A brief history of Southern California's hot springs |url=https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-12-28/a-brief-history-of-southern-californias-hot-springs |access-date=2023-11-01 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US}} As was the case with Radium Sulphur Springs and Bimini Hot Springs elsewhere in Los Angeles County,{{Cite book |last=Waring |first=Gerald Ashley |url=https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.b3015436?urlappend=%3Bseq=78 |title=Springs of California |date=January 1915 |publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office |series=Water-Supply Paper no. 338–339 (Department of the Interior, United States Geological Survey Water-Supply Papers) |location=Washington, D.C. |pages=71–72 |hdl=2027/uc1.b3015436?urlappend=%3Bseq=78 |language=en |access-date=2023-11-01 |via=HathiTrust}} the waters of Seminole Hot Springs were "discovered" and then commercialized after oil drillers hit water instead of petroleum.{{Cite web |last=Megli-Thuna |first=Dawn |date=2018-12-13 |title=Seminole Springs, a former mountain retreat |url=https://www.theacorn.com/articles/seminole-springs-a-former-mountain-retreat/ |access-date=2023-11-10 |website=The Acorn - Serving Agoura Hills, Calabasas, Oak Park & Westlake Village}} Major fires passed through the area in the 1930s and 1940s.{{Cite book |last=Greene |first=Linda W. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ljzjHvb3ATwC&dq=%22seminole+hot+springs%22&pg=PA41 |title=A Historical Survey of the Santa Monica Mountains: Preliminary Historic Resource Study, Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area |date=1980 |publisher=Historic Preservation Branch, Pacific Northwest/Western Team, Denver Service Center, National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior |pages=41 |language=en}} The 1941 American Guide to Los Angeles described Seminole Hot Springs as "a year-round health and pleasure resort resort, with springs, cottages, bathhouse, open-air mineral water plunge, and cafe buried in a copse of sycamores below the level of the road."{{Cite web |title=Los Angeles; a guide to the city and its environs |url=https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015029508374?urlappend=%3Bseq=521 |access-date=2023-11-11 |website=HathiTrust |pages=383–384 | hdl=2027/mdp.39015029508374?urlappend=%3Bseq=521 |language=en}}

In 1966, an investor group headed up by James R. Biram, was formed to develop what is now Seminole Hot Springs Mobile Home Park. The park used the mineral water as an amenity of the recreation building for the residents. Unfortunately, the artesian mineral well gave out. Years later, the park was converted to a resident-owned mobile home community. Now it is essentially a suburb of the Agoura–Calabasas area. The Woolsey Fire of 2018 destroyed 100 of the 215 mobile homes at Seminole Hot Springs.

{{gallery |File:SoCal_Springs_ads,_1926.jpg|Stack of ads for SoCal spring resorts in the Los Angeles Evening Express, 1926: Guenther's Murrieta Mineral Hot Springs, Gilman Relief Hot Springs, Wheelers Hot Mineral Springs, and Seminole Hot Springs

|File:Pepperdine Malibu Historical Collection Anderson00122.jpg|Route map to Seminole Hot Springs (Pepperdine University, Malibu Historical Collection, Anderson00122)

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• Alvarado Hot Springs
• Radium Sulphur Springs
• Bimini Baths

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