The White Sulphur springs; the traditions, history, and social life of the Greenbriar White Sulphur Springs . on depended upon the quiet in which shemight make her journey. Day and night sheagain pressed through the wilderness, this timewith her face turned to the west, one hope animat-ing her life,—the hope of saving the lives of thegarrison at Fort Lee. After the darkness of the night, when hope haddied away in the heart of the garrison, a quietknocking was heard at the gates of Fort Lee, andwith sufficient powder to preserve the defendersfrom destruction by the Indians, Anne Bailey wasadmit
The White Sulphur springs; the traditions, history, and social life of the Greenbriar White Sulphur Springs . on depended upon the quiet in which shemight make her journey. Day and night sheagain pressed through the wilderness, this timewith her face turned to the west, one hope animat-ing her life,—the hope of saving the lives of thegarrison at Fort Lee. After the darkness of the night, when hope haddied away in the heart of the garrison, a quietknocking was heard at the gates of Fort Lee, andwith sufficient powder to preserve the defendersfrom destruction by the Indians, Anne Bailey wasadmitted to the Fort and the outposts of civiliza-tion in the West were saved from fire and toma-hawk. Great deeds have been done and recorded byhistory, but no chronicle surpasses in heroism, dar-ing, and skill the two-hundred-mile ride of AnneBailey through a trackless wilderness from Lewis-burg to Fort Lee. Past this historic place flowed the great tide oftravel from the beginning of the settlement of ourcountry up to the time of the building of the pres-ent Chesapeake & Ohio Railway. It was a famous. ^ The Country of the White Sulphur 33 route to the west. The dream of the Virginianswas to join the waters of the James River with theOhio through the Greenbrier River, the New, andthe Kanawha, and establish a water connectionbetween the East and the West through the thenimperial domain of Virginia. The James Riverand Kanawha Turnpike followed the Lewis buf-falo trail from the White Sulphur to the presenttown of Ansted, and here it left the Lewis trail andkept on its westward course down New River tothe mouth of Gauley, and thence down the Kana-wha. In the old days this route was a national stageIme, along which the people came from the Eastand South by way of Fredericksburg, or Rich-mond, to the passes of the Blue Ridge, thenceacross the Valley; or from Harpers Ferry up theValley to Staunton and thence from Staunton totiie White Sulphur and on over the Alleghanies tothe west. The
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