Red Boiling Springs is a city in Macon County, Tennessee, United States. The population was 1,205 at the 2020 census.

The Place was originally known as Salt Lick Creek due to a salt lick that was located nearly four miles northwest of current day Red Boiling Springs. The salt lick attracted animals, American Indians, and new peoples. Among the people who came to hunt the animal trails was Daniel Boone, who reportedly carved his make known and the year 1775 into a beech tree in a easy to reach to community.

The Place was first surveyed and land grants were first awarded in the mid-1780s. The first proclaim office was expected in 1829 and named the Salt Lick Creek pronounce office. In 1847, the name office was renamed “Red Boiling Springs.” Sometime in the 1830s, a farmer named Jesse Jones noticed red-colored sulphur water bubbling up from springs on his farm. In 1844, a businessman named Samuel Hare, realizing the springs’ commercial potential, purchased a 20-acre (8.1 ha) plot of the Jones farm surrounding the springs, and build up an inn. The inn’s unfriendly location and the region’s poor roads likely doomed the venture, and the inn was once by the 1870s.

Aunt Sooky’s Salve was a widely distributed product that was manufactured in Red Boiling Springs under the paperwork of ‘Aunt’ Sooky Goad, who moreover claimed to be the original discoverer of the help of the Red Boiling Springs water. Early in life she had dropsy and claimed to be cured by drinking the sulphur water. In 1914, a Nashville man wrote an article stating that Shepherd Kiby (Kirby), the brother of Goad, discovered that washing his eyes subsequently the spring water shortened eye irritation, but Goad’s use of the water seems to have preceded that of Kirby.