The White Sulphur springs; the traditions, history, and social life of the Greenbriar White Sulphur Springs . of the denizens of the Valley tothe hotel, to see the incoming travelers and to ob-tain the mail. It took the stage six days to comefrom Fredericksburg to the White Sulphur. In1853,—by deed dated November 22 and recordedJune 13, 1857,—the descendants of Frances Bow-yer and James Caldwell conveyed the property toWilliam Hamilton McFarland, Trustee. Thisconveyance was for the purpose of beginning thewider and greater development of the this time the South was tremendously pro
The White Sulphur springs; the traditions, history, and social life of the Greenbriar White Sulphur Springs . of the denizens of the Valley tothe hotel, to see the incoming travelers and to ob-tain the mail. It took the stage six days to comefrom Fredericksburg to the White Sulphur. In1853,—by deed dated November 22 and recordedJune 13, 1857,—the descendants of Frances Bow-yer and James Caldwell conveyed the property toWilliam Hamilton McFarland, Trustee. Thisconveyance was for the purpose of beginning thewider and greater development of the this time the South was tremendously pros-perous, and the Springs were then the great recrea-tion place of the whole of that section, and, to alarge extent, of the whole country. On May i McFarland, as Trustee, with Wil-liam B. Caldwell, for the sum of ten thousand dol-lars, conveyed the property to Jeremiah Morton,Matthew F. Maury, Allan T. Caperton, R. , Alexander K. Phillips, A. F. Gifford,James Hunter and J. Warren Slaughter. The pur-pose of this conveyance was to organize a jointstock company under the Act of March i, 1854, of. •,,,,,. .s -toru). , and Iif !? ! enW) tuti\ u3 ^:^^1 v shu. iiu; Title and History 57 the Legislature of Virginia, entitled, An Act toIncorporate the White Sulphur Springs Com-pany; and on the same day these gentlemen andtheir wives conveyed the property to the WhiteSulphur Springs Company. The main White Sulphur building, which in-cludes the large brick building with the parlor andthe great dining-room, was commenced by theWhite Sulphur Springs Company in 1854 ^^dfinished in 1858. The great dining-room was thenthe largest room for the purpose in the UnitedStates, if not in the world. Around the White Sulphur Springs driftedbackward and forward the fierce fortunes of th,ewar. It was the debatable land between Virginiaand the Ohio border, and was the sc
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