Do you have any information on Shannondale Springs, a resort of world renown, once in the Jefferson County VA (now West Virginia)?
Shannondale Springs in its heyday in the early mid 19th century., Welcomed about 13 U.S. presidents. Its mineral water is promoted worldwide as a cure for many diseases, many times. In 1858, the station was burned and never regained its glory but a much less elegant version was built on the ruins. The latter succumbed to a fire in 1909. A virtual tour of the complex can be found by entering "spring shannondale" In any major search engine or@www.shannondale.org / foss Has anyone correspondence, objects, photos or anecdotal information on complex, it can be stuffed in boxes in the attic albums, age, etc.? Recently were the recipients grateful dam is folded in a family Bible. Your help would be greatly appreciated and awarded leader in our presentation.
SHANNONDALE SPRINGS: where the company took the waters in SHANNONDALE BRIEF HISTORY Written by Susan Winter Springs in 1983, the author writes that the centers health that once roamed the area of ??Blue Ridge, many have "just disappeared." He at least in the early 1980s, Shannondale Springs had not completely disappeared. You can see some foundations of the old hotel and cottages in a field. Shannondale Springs Resort is located in the county Jefferson, West Virginia, on the east bank of the Shenandoah River about ten miles north of Harpers Ferry, which began about 5 miles south of Charles Town, the capital of the county. When Susan survey of winter instead of turning, she wrote: The site of action is based on a bluff overlooking the river and open field next to it. A spring is located in this area. Two additional springs are found along the edge of the plain to the hill "Note that the word "may" in the preceding sentence. Today, the land on which Shannondale Springs Spa is a time that is now part of the European Shannondale Springs Wildlife Management. When I asked my research during the last spring, when the springs are still flowing Shannondale, the answer was that no one could say for sure. The site is for all practical purposes, now inaccessible. The first link says that some of the springs of the second contains photos Hope this helps