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Washington and Lee University, Leyburn Library

Rockbridge Baths Hotel Ledger

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This register contains names of guests who visited the Rockbridge Baths, Virginia hotel between June 1871 and May 1882. Among them were many prominent faculty members of Washington and Lee University and Virginia Military Institute, as well as guests from the city of Lexington, Virginia.

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Rockbridge Baths Hotel Ledger 1 Linear Feet

Rockbridge Baths Hotel

This register contains names of guests who visited the Rockbridge Baths, Virginia hotel between June 1871 and May 1882. Among them were many prominent faculty members of Washington and Lee University and Virginia Military Institute, as well as guests from the city of Lexington, Virginia.

Washington and Lee University, Leyburn Library

Unidentified travel diary

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This manuscript copy of a diary dated May 26 through August 15, 1835 was kept by an unidentified traveller journeying by railroad, boat, and stagecoach from New York to the springs of Virginia (and the present-day West Virginia) and then on to Cincinnati, Ohio and Lexington, Kentucky before returning to New York. The traveller made stops in Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, and Fredericksburg. Most of the journal's accounts deal with the period when the writer was at White Sulphur Springs and the adjacent area. He records his impressions of inns and places visited, persons encountered, going to balls, calling on ladies and even a trip to Lexington, Virginia where he visits 'Mr. Clay,' presumably Henry Clay, who was at that time a Senator from Kentucky.

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Unidentified travel diary 1 Item

This manuscript copy of a diary dated May 26 through August 15, 1835 was kept by an unidentified traveller journeying by railroad, boat, and stagecoach from New York to the springs of Virginia (and the present-day West Virginia) and then on to Cincinnati, Ohio and Lexington, Kentucky before returning to New York. The traveller made stops in Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, and Fredericksburg. Most of the journal's accounts deal with the period when the writer was at White Sulphur Springs and the adjacent area. He records his impressions of inns and places visited, persons encountered, going to balls, calling on ladies and even a trip to Lexington, Virginia where he visits 'Mr. Clay,' presumably Henry Clay, who was at that time a Senator from Kentucky.

Washington and Lee University, Leyburn Library

Virginia Hot Springs Company Records

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This collection contains records, mostly in printed pamphlet form, of the Virginia Hot Springs Company, formed in 1892 from the Southern Improvement Company, with Decatur Axtell as its president. Also included in the collection are several pamphlets about other springs, e.g. Healing, Warm, and White Sulphur: information about automobile travel in western Virginia circa 1913, and a few letters to and from Mr. Axtell.

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Virginia Hot Springs Company Records .25 Linear Feet

Axtell, D. B. (Decatur Boynton)

This collection contains records, mostly in printed pamphlet form, of the Virginia Hot Springs Company, formed in 1892 from the Southern Improvement Company, with Decatur Axtell as its president. Also included in the collection are several pamphlets about other springs, e.g. Healing, Warm, and White Sulphur: information about automobile travel in western Virginia circa 1913, and a few letters to and from Mr. Axtell.

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