. A history of Rockingham County, Virginia . Rawley Springs (Pages 395, 396). Hotel Massanetta, Looking th e Grove (Pages 391, 395) ROCKINGHAM COUNTY Lupton, and in January, 1911, the Massanetta SpringsCompany, J. R. Lupton, manager, became the owners. Thewaters contain calcium carbonate, magnesium, and othervaluable elements, and are widely celebrated. The hotels arefilled with guests, permanent and transient, during thesummer months, and large quantities of the water are sent outupon order. 1 For a number of years past the most famous summerresort in Rockingham, and one of the mos
. A history of Rockingham County, Virginia . Rawley Springs (Pages 395, 396). Hotel Massanetta, Looking th e Grove (Pages 391, 395) ROCKINGHAM COUNTY Lupton, and in January, 1911, the Massanetta SpringsCompany, J. R. Lupton, manager, became the owners. Thewaters contain calcium carbonate, magnesium, and othervaluable elements, and are widely celebrated. The hotels arefilled with guests, permanent and transient, during thesummer months, and large quantities of the water are sent outupon order. 1 For a number of years past the most famous summerresort in Rockingham, and one of the most celebrated inVirginia, has been Rawley Springs, located llj miles west ofHarrisonburg, 2000 feet above the sea level. Rawley is alsoold in story. The following extracts from a letter writtenSeptember 24, 1881, by Benjamin H. Smith, of Charleston,W. Va., will be of interest, as to beginnings. My father resided in Rockingham county in the year 1810. In theearly part of that year my mother became diseased with chronic diar-rhoea, and although she had the medical services of
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