Very little remains of the former resort established by Dr. William R. Hayden. The hotel was demolished in 1913, and there are no longer any structures associated with the medicinal springs. The beautiful Hayden homestead can still be seen on Fawn Circle. The former pharmaceutical laboratory on the far side of Sweetwater Avenue, a side business venture of one of the resort's former owners, was converted to a nine-unit residential condominium in the 1980s. The adjacent railway bed, which has been improved as a bikeway, was once the site of the country's first two-foot narrow-gauge railway. The railway declared bankruptcy after only a year, the tracks were eventually replaced with a more standard gauge, and the tracks and the resort's former depot have since been dismantled. The railroad bed, now owned by the town, constitutes the north-south rail trail and bike path.

The following is a chronology of historic Bedford Springs.

1600s. There are indications that the Nipmuck or Pawtucket Indians (this was a border area) frequented the site's springs and that Spring Road which abuts the property to the east may have been an early trail through Bedford.

1640s. A 150-acre Cambridge Shawsheen grant resulted in what was later known as the "Oakes Farm".

1830. The "John Hales" map of Bedford shows hills and woodland in this area of Bedford, but no open water.

1830s-50s. The presumed medicinal value of the three springs was first recognized. A health resort was established (initially known as the Springs Hotel or Springs House Hotel).

1860s-90s. Dr. Hayden purchased the property and greatly enhanced and enlarged the hotel and other structures. Sometime prior to 1875 Spring Pond was dug out, impounded, and renamed Fawn Lake.

1875. Beer's Map of Middlesex County is the earliest map to show Fawn Lake in its approximate current shape and size.

1877. The country's first two-foot "narrow gauge" railway was constructed between Bedford and Billerica, passing on the west side of Fawn Lake. The narrow-gauge railway declared bankruptcy after a year and was eventually replaced by a wider gauge system. The abandoned railbed remains as a public trail.

1879. Reverend Stearns' Oration from the 150-year anniversary of Bedford's 1729 incorporation commented on the remarkable landscaping transformation of Bedford Springs over the previous 40 years.

1880s. Dr. Hayden, as President of the New York Pharmaceutical Company, built a pharmaceutical "laboratory" which served as a bottling plant for up to 350 concoctions based on the spring waters. Many old bottles from this area were discovered during the development and construction of the Hayden Highlands subdivision.

1891. The definitive history of Bedford (by A.E. Brown) includes pictures of the hotel, springs or bath houses, pharmaceutical laboratory, and Fawn Lake. Improvements to the resort were still being made as of 1891. The history describes the estate as comprising "about two hundred acres of cleared and wood land, one of the largest artificial lakes in the State, a summer hotel, three medicinal springs, railroad station, express and post-office, and is a little world in itself".

1898. Advertising brochures distributed for the reopening of the greatly enlarged hotel, renamed "Hotel Sweetwater" or "The Sweetwater", also refer to the "largest artificial lake in the State, furnished with rowboats".

1913. The hotel ceased operation and was demolished.

1980s. The pharmaceutical laboratory (which for a period of at least a few decades had been used for other commercial purposes) was converted to residential condominium use.