The White Sulphur springs; the traditions, history, and social life of the Greenbriar White Sulphur Springs . untry frequently assem-bled here to discuss the condition of the Presidents Cottage, with its colonial portico,still exists as it did during the time when it wasa practical seat of the executive government of the United States. , In the old account books we find in one dayregistered Rufus Choate, Massachusetts; ThomasCorwin, Ohio; William C. Rives, Ji^g^- ^^Millard Fillmore, New York. Andrew JacksonHenry Clay, Daniel Webster, Audubon, andLewis and Clark were visitors. Preside
The White Sulphur springs; the traditions, history, and social life of the Greenbriar White Sulphur Springs . untry frequently assem-bled here to discuss the condition of the Presidents Cottage, with its colonial portico,still exists as it did during the time when it wasa practical seat of the executive government of the United States. , In the old account books we find in one dayregistered Rufus Choate, Massachusetts; ThomasCorwin, Ohio; William C. Rives, Ji^g^- ^^Millard Fillmore, New York. Andrew JacksonHenry Clay, Daniel Webster, Audubon, andLewis and Clark were visitors. President JohnTyler married Miss Julia Gardner, a great beautyof Virginia and a belle of The White and theyspent their honeymoon at the Presidents CottageWhat a marvelous list the old registers show!Clay, Marshall, Calhoun, Crittenden Lindsey,Breckinridge, Carlisle and Meany of Kentucky;Stephen Decatur, Webster, Adams, JeffersonPatrick Henry, Leigh, Monroe, Madison, Pierce,Floyd, Barber, Carroll, Calvert, Fairfax, Hamp-ton, Thurman, Benton, Cass, Douglas, Rives, Pres-ton Grant, Arthur, Carlisle, and hundreds of. Account of Commodore DecaturFacing page 405 The White Sulphur and the South 405 other names bright as the stars of heaven, but toonumerous to mention within the limit of thesepages. Here came King Edward, then Prince ofWales, and here, too, Madame Jerome books of the place abound in the names ofpoets, divines, travelers, and warriors, but aboveall is the aroma of the romance of the Old South. The sparkling days of the White Sulphur werethe days of the romanticism and the chivalry ofthe South. Filled with the old time splendor,touched with the chivalry of a day that the con-ditions of the South brought about and accentu-ated, this section assembled at the White Sulphurits bravest and best. The corridors are redolentwith the witchery of the old days where the smileof the Belle of Mobile, or of the Queen of theBlue Grass of Kentucky, brought to that maidensfeet the
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