The springs of Virginia

Virginia's health resorts from the Revolution to the 20th century. This book presents the Virginia mineral springs. The chief area straddled the continental divide and lay northeast to southwest, with Warm Springs at the top, Gray Sulphur at the bottom, Rockbridge Alum on the east, and Blue Sulphur on the west. The distance between farthest points, either way, was about seventy-five miles. “Almost everyone went in at the Warm Springs and came out the same way” (p. 26). Invalids followed the tour