Red Sulphur Springs Hotel
- Red Sulphur Springs Hotel
The Red Sulphur Springs Hotel was an old spring resort in the small community of Red Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. Their was social event every evening. The last event held at the hotel was a dance. When a person died, to keep the hotel reputation, they secretly took the dead to a cemetery, about two miles away. Many markers in this cemetery have no name on them. The hotel opened in 1832 and closed in 1917. At one time Martin Van Buren, the president of the United States, came to the hotel. The owner at one time was Levi Morton, Vice President under Benjamin Harrison.In 1917 the hotel closed and was dismantled. There is only a small concrete base where the pavilion once stood.
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* [http://books.google.com/books?id=3v-cnLArBV4C&ie=ISO-8859-1 Red Sulphur Springs, Monroe County, Virginia By William Burke]
* [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9902E7DC133BE033A25754C2A96E9C94629FD7CF&scp=1&sq=Red+Sulphur+Springs The Red Sulphur Springs; Minister Morton's Hotel in the Happy Valley]
* [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9402E5DC133BE033A2575BC2A96E9C94629FD7CF&scp=2&sq=Red+Sulphur+Springs Around the Red Sulphur; The Virginia Mountains and Their People.]
* [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9F02E7DB1031E13BBC4052DFBE668388649FDE&scp=3&sq=Red+Sulphur+Springs Summer Letters.; Letter-Links between New-York and Virginia.]
* [http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9800E0D7133AE334BC4A51DFBE668388649FDE Summer Letters.; Letter-Links between New-York and Virginia.]
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