. Baltimore & Ohio resorts and springs, summer 1905 . cenery which bids fair to its becoming a re-sort of great prominence in the near Of the famous John Browns raid there remains nothingbut the monument where his improvised fort stood, andthe foundation stones of the United States arsenal. TheGovernment has marked with iron tablets the history ofthe Civil War. The old houses and churches still remainas in days gone by. Jeffersons Rock still commandsthat famous view of the Shenandoah made historic byThomas Jefferson, whilst farther up the ShenandoahRiver, on the Virginia side, John Br
. Baltimore & Ohio resorts and springs, summer 1905 . cenery which bids fair to its becoming a re-sort of great prominence in the near Of the famous John Browns raid there remains nothingbut the monument where his improvised fort stood, andthe foundation stones of the United States arsenal. TheGovernment has marked with iron tablets the history ofthe Civil War. The old houses and churches still remainas in days gone by. Jeffersons Rock still commandsthat famous view of the Shenandoah made historic byThomas Jefferson, whilst farther up the ShenandoahRiver, on the Virginia side, John Browns fort stands byitself in a lonely field, where it was rebuilt on its returnfrom the Chicago Worlds Fair. Harpers Ferry is atthe head of the beautiful Shenandoah Valley, and theValley Branch of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad leadstherefrom to all the famous resorts in the valley, so wellknown in the last hundred years, and as a consequencenumbers of visitors locate at Harpers Ferry and maketheir pilgrimages therefrom down the beautiful BEDFORD SPRINGS HOTEL. BEDFORD SPRINGS. PA. Bedford Springs, located at Bedford, ten milesfrom Hyndman station on the Baltimore & Ohio Rail-road, in the Allegheny Mountains, l,lfHt feel abovetide-water, comprise the Magnesia Spring, the SulphurSpring, the Pure Spring and the Iron Spring. Themountain air is bracing, the nights are delightful, withno mosquitos, and malaria is unheard of. It has beenpatronized as a sunmier resort for three-quarters of acentury, and the attractions of the place are well known. Celebrated as mineral waters have become all over theworld for the cure of disease, there have been none tosurpass, and in this country none to equal in virtue, theBedford Magnesia Spring. ALLEGHENY MOUNTAINS. BALTIMORE & OHIO R. R. The Sulphur Spring rises on the west side of ShoversCreek, about two hundred yards distant from the Mag-nesia Spring. It is less copious than the others, andthe water exhales a very strong odor of su
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