Beersheba Springs is a town in Grundy County, Tennessee, United States. The population was 477 at the 2010 census. A resort town in the 19th century, Beersheba Springs was the summer home of author Mary Noailles Murfree. It now serves as a major summer meeting middle for the Tennessee United Methodist Church.

In 1833 Beersheba Porter Cain discovered a chalybeate spring. The spring and surrounding area, located above Collins River Valley, would be incorporated in 1839. Upon its incorporation, Beersheba Springs would relieve as a summer resort in imitation of a little hotel and log cabins. The resort would be popular like stagecoach traffic that would travel in the midst of Chattanooga and McMinnville. It was notable for its mineral waters. Eventually Louisiana farmers furthermore moved into the area, leaving astern the notoriously hot summers of their home state. Beersheba Springs served as the summer house for Tennessee Mary Noailles Murfree.

In 1854 Colonel John Armfield, a slave trader from Louisiana, acquired the property. Upwards of 100 slaves were brought to Beersheba Springs to work upon Armfield’s changes to the property: a extra luxury hotel, cabins and grounds that would accommodate 400 guests. The resort would feature laundry facilities, ice houses, billiard rooms, and bowling alleys. French chefs were brought in to support guests, as were musical acts from New Orleans.

A wooden observatory was built at the tummy of the hotel. From the observatory, guests could watch Confederate and Union armies battle during the Civil War. Eventually the threat of war, raids, and plundering would cause a halt in visitation to Beersheba Springs and the resort was handed over to Northern investors.