Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1856-07-21

changes. and primitive enjoymeuts. TiaekHowl-
sedre Of It's having been the summer resort for
3 F,,sic. recz sation Of the itlustrious Gen. Wash
iae.os, i sufficient 70 distinguish itasa place vi
.sfn.iierabls note; and to walk on ground that
Ms oncsbeoa honoTei BY his footsteps, viii ex-
.tite from assoeiAtion, the very spirit OF liberty
aid patriotism:
Thsss Springs Gays NJ. Norman, who is in
{ :bssd 10 D. 3. strOtheE. Egg. for the historical
spsisll q theplzce,) were resorted TO by inva-
sal avery caT1J PEriOd, and had great celeb
FSiEy throughout the Colonies Hundreds anEu-
ally foeked thsthsT from an quatters, and tradi-
.tSnal accounts Of the accommodations and
auussmeass Of those primitive times are caleu-
aIstsd TO excite both the m!rth and envy Of the
present age Rude log huts, board and canvas
tents. and eyen covered wagons, served as lodg-
ing rooms, shilc every party brought its own
substantial provisions OF -four, meat and bacon,
depending for lighter articles Of diet on the 'hiil
folk. or the success of their own foTagers
large hollow seooped in the sand, surroundedby
screen Of pine brush, was the only bathing
ho,,se. end this was used alternately by ladies'
and gentlemen. The time set apart for the la
dies yrss announced by blast on long tiirhorn
IT which signal ali of the opposite sex retired to
: prescribed distance, and woe to any nnfortu-
nate wight who might be found withiA the mag
&c circle. such were the primitive scconnodo-
lions Of the firrt wrtcring-placc that was open
ed in Virginia, and such the recrcations and
I snuse1nents Of our forefathera, about the event
ftil period that ushered. Us as nation lnt9 the
world
The Importance Of this property was appre-
.cisted by the country at a very early period for
g.. October, I77e, in the first year of the Com
1aonweaIth, We find the following in the statute
I. book Of Virginia:
Whereas it hath been represented 70 inc
General Assembly, that the laying off Of fifty
.acres of land in lots and streets, for town at
the Warm Springs in the county Of Berkeley
'.will be Of grea. utility, by encouraging the
purchasers thereof TO build convenient houses
for accommodating numbers Of infirm persons
who frequent those Springs yearly for the re-
"eovery of their health.
"Be it therefore enacted by the General As
Gsesnbly of the Commonwealth of Virginia, that
"fifty acres of land adjoining the said Springs,
..being part Of large tract of land. the prop
- fty OF IuS AASlluiGO1S
.Fairfax. or other person or persons holding
:. the same, by grant or conveyance from h't''
abe. and the same is hereby invested in Bryan
:. Fairfax. Thomas Bryan Martin, Warner Wash
..;npton. Rev. Charles 81. Thurston, Robert
.. Rttherfori,> Thomas Rutherford, Alexander
-. White, Fhiip Pendietotl' oanuei "
"WiiIiam Rllsy, Van swearingcn, Thomas aite,
"a .Tsmes Earuonson. James Nonrse, gentlemen
" trustees, to be by them, or any seven OF them
"laii out into lots of one quarter acre each,
with Convenient streets, which shall be- anu
/" the Fame are hereby established a town oy
!. the name Of Bath, DC. &c'-Aen'"gs !Std'-
uies at Lqrge.
The town was consequently laii oil into iots
il August. 1777. Among the purchasers were
Charles Carroll Of Carrollton, Horatio Gates
Gen. George Washington, and many others q
lote and distinction.
In the schedule to Gen. Warrington Will we
find the following cisuse:
8 BARN, Oh WARN SPRINGS.
ssTwo well situated and handsome buildings to
the amount Of 8l5O.
"And this note Of the property appended to the
ss schedule:
~ BATH."
'sThe lots IN Bath Gown adioining1 cost me to
the best of my recollection, between hfty ana
sixty pounds, twenty years ago. Whether
property there has increased or decreased in
value and in what condition the houses are, /
am ignorant, but suppose they are not valued
.olbiyhn
.sThe sights Of these houses are sti!l pointed
ont !"
In the memoirs of the Baroness dc Rcivcsil,
(wife OF the German General who was taken
prisoner with Burgoyne at Saratoga she speaks
Of Of bsv;ar pessed part of the summer of 1879