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Rockbridge Alum Springs papers, WLU Coll. 0686, Special Collections and Archives, James G. Leyburn Library, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA.
Rockbridge Alum Springs, which also includes the Jordan Alum Springs, is now known as A Young Life Camp. Young Life is a non-denominational Christian youth organization, which has been operated as a year-round campground since 1992.
Rockbridge Alum Springs was a poplar 19th and early 20th century mountain resort in western Rockbridge County. Four structures dating primarily to the 1850s, remain, along with the well, the stone spring chambers, gazebo, and the Jordan Alum Springs bandstand. The resort remained in operation until 1941.
This collection was purchased for our Special Collections department. All of this material constituted a part of the property sold in 1942 to Harold H. Bailey, noted ornithologist, and author of "The Birds of Virginia." Upon his death in 1963, the property was controlled by a Trust, consisting of his wife, Laura Beatty Bailey, and his children by a prior marraige. In the Summer of 1980, this last known correspondence was aquired from Col. Flowers, chief spokesman for the trustees, and husband of Dorothy Bailey Flowers, daughter of H. H. Bailey.
Acquired from book dealer, Mike Hopkins.
Includes Rockbridge Alum Springs Water 1910 card with price to retailer and to consumer.
Includes twelve page booklet, Rockbridge Alum Springs: How Physicians Regard Them.
The dated letters are from Ruth R., and the undated letters are from Curtis S. Calkins in the VPI Department of Biology, and Mary Linda (Mrs. J. Arlington Siler).
Includes September 15, 1905 letter from her father, Charles Beatly, photocopies of 1886 birth and 1975 death certificates, July 1966 vaccine records, and genealogy.
Includes Bailey Museum and Library of Natural History book plates, Mrs. Harold Harris Bailey notecards, along with the printer's plate, and a "Property of Laura B. Bailey" rubber stamp.
Includes Inventory of Personal Property at Rockbridge Alum Springs, Virginia, January 7, 1909.
See also correspondence.
See also correspondence.
Includes three loose items concerning Laura (Mrs. Harold) Bailey.
Includes article, "Sweet Waters of the South," Women's Home Companion, April 1938, and newspaper clippings concerning the Rockbridge Alum Springs.
Includes a newspaper cartoon.
Includes receipts of Special Delivery Mail, 1918, 1920.
Includes a 1914 credit post card and statements of differences, 1914-1917. Also includes a 1917 Offical Postal Guide and Special Delivery records, July-August 1918.
See also correspondence.
Includes leather pouch.
The Commonwealth of Virginia, to the Sherriff of Rockbridge County, Greeting: You are hereby commanded to SUMMON S. W. McCorkle Exor of Thos McCorkle decd, S. W. McCorkle & L. D. McCorkle his wife, Mary L. Morrison admrx, of J. L. Morrison decd, D. E. Strain Trustee, W. A. Glasgow trustee, H. Goodbar, A. N. Bell, W. H. Netz, Henry Weiss, Luther Alexander, P. H. Fix, Wm. Fix, John Goodbard, R. S. Anderson, Stuart Thompson, A. Hotinger, J. M. Senseney, Elizabeth Dixon, C. H. Effinger, the Rockbridge Savings Bank, the Bank of Lexington Va/C. M. Figgat Guardian, H. H. Myer, Louisa Baxter, Jno. A. Graham, W. C. Colvin admr of R. A. Pleasants decd, W. F. Johnston Exor of C. R. Yount decd, Wm. Greever, John W. Kelley, T. T. Agner, Saml Alexander, H. Davin, A. T. Barclay, Buena Vista Loan & Trustee Co., B. C. Moomaw, E. D. Moore, & W. S. Hopkins Trustee. to appear at the Clerk's Office of our Circuit Court for Rockbridge County at the Rules to be holden for the said Court on the first Monday in August, next, to answer a Bill in Chancery exhibited against them in the said Court by W. P. Houston Trustee. ... Witness John C. Boude, Clerk of our said Court, July 12, 1894.
Most of Patton's correspondence is written to Greenlee Davidson Letcher, President, Rockbridge Alum Springs, Inc.
Includes cash statements.
Includes cash statements.
Includes cash statements.
Includes cash statements.
Includes cash statements.
Includes cash statements.
Includes photos of the Bailey's dog, Duke.
Includes photos of the Bailey's dog Duke and their horse Nellie.
Includes photos of horse Nellie.
Includes photos of dog Duke.
Most of the January 1909 letterbook is damaged.