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Preferred Citation

Preferred citation: [Identification of item], Virginia Hot Springs Company Records, WLU Coll. 0271, Special Collections and Archives, James G. Leyburn Library, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA.

In some cases the citation format may vary. Please contact Special Collections staff to verify the appropriate format.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Purchased from Bookworm and Silverfish in 1994.

Processing Information

Blue sheet prepared by Betty Kondayan (9/3/2002)

Biographical / Historical

Virginia Hot Springs Company, headed by Decatur Axtell, became the Homestead Resort in 1902.

Scope and Contents

This collection contains records, mostly in printed pamphlet form, of the Virginia Hot Springs Company, formed in 1892 from the Southern Improvement Company, with Decatur Axtell as its president. Also included in the collection are several pamphlets about other springs, e.g. Healing, Warm, and White Sulphur: information about automobile travel in western Virginia circa 1913, and a few letters to and from Mr. Axtell.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Automobile travel
• Correspondence
• Hot springs
• Printed ephemera
• Virginia -- Healing Springs
• Virginia -- Warm Springs
• Voyages and travels
• West Virginia -- White Sulphur Springs