Salt Sulphur Springs

From West Virginia (WV) Cyclopedia

Like many other "healing" or mineral springs in southern West Virginia, the Salt Sulphur Spring, near Union, West Virginia, in Monroe County, was a resort prior to the Civil War. Wealthy Southerners would retire to the springs in summer to escape the heat of the Tidewater and Piedmont lowlands of Virginia and the Carolinas. Three springs bubble up beneath gazebos on the property -- the sweet spring, salt spring, and iodine spring. Visitors expected that ingesting and bathing in the water could cure or aleviate many ailments, though a stay at the springs was primarily a social event.

Other famous mineral springs nearby included Sweet Springs, Blue Sulphur Springs, and White Sulphur Springs. Only the latter, now centerpiece of The Greenbrier (http://thegreenbrier.com), survived the economic downturns of the Civil War.

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