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Cave Spring is a small city in southwestern Floyd County, Georgia, about 17 miles southwest of Rome, the county seat, and only about 5 miles east of the Alabama state line.

The town takes its name from a natural limestone cave and clear mineral spring in what is now Rolater Park, a spring that still serves as the main source of drinking water for Cave Spring and nearby communities.

The spring produces an estimated 2 million gallons of water a day, flowing from the cave into a rock holding pond and then into a 1.5-acre swimming pool built of stone, and visitors still come to fill jugs with the award-winning water.

Although the town itself dates to 1832, Cherokee and earlier Mississippian peoples had long used the cave and spring site for drinking water, meetings and games, and the surrounding area is known as Vann's Valley, named for Cherokee chief James Vann.

Cave Spring was founded in 1832 by Baptist settlers, making it older than its county seat of Rome and predating Atlanta.

In 1846 the Georgia School for the Deaf began in Cave Spring with four pupils and one teacher, O. P. Fannin, meeting in a log cabin as part of the Hearn Manual Labor School, and the state-funded residential school still operates in the city today.

During the Civil War, the Georgia School for the Deaf campus was closed and used as a field hospital by both Confederate and Union troops, and armies also came to Cave Spring to rest and recover in 1864.

Fannin Hall, built for the Georgia School for the Deaf in 1846, was renovated and reopened in 2015 as Cave Spring's city hall.

Dr. J. B. Rolater deeded 29 acres containing the cave and spring to the town on October 23, 1931, creating Rolater Park on condition that the land never be sold.

The 2020 census counted 1,174 residents in Cave Spring, living in 506 households.