![]() ![]() 1 The guest cottages were eloquently known as the “Five Sisters.” 4 16įamous visitors to Sweet Springs included George and Martha Washington, General Lafayette, Jerome Bonaparte, Patrick Henry, Robert E. Over the years, five brick guest cottages were constructed, along with a ballroom, a brick bathhouse, and several dwellings for slaves. 17 The interior contained a dining room 160-feet long and drawing rooms and dancing rooms at either end of the first floor, 36 bedrooms on the second floor. ![]() 3 18 It featured full brick construction with a fully exposed basement, a pedimented gable roof, a five-part facade with three monumental tetrastyle pedimented Tuscan porticoes above the arcade. Construction started on the 90,000 square-foot building in 1834 and completed in 1839. John enlisted the services of Thomas Jefferson to design a hotel for Sweet Springs, with the plans being completed before Jefferson’s death in 1826. The last circuit court session at Sweet Springs was held in 1817. 4 Doctors claimed that the waters could cure everything f rom arthritis to depression. and other towns who were attracted to the reported healing waters. 18 The resort began to blossom with an influx of tourists from Washington D.C. ![]() William divided 438 acres of his farm between Sweet and Red Springs between his sons John and Charles on October 25, 1804, and turned over the Sweet Springs property to his son, John B. 16 It had been proposed to develop Fortville which would have included an elaborate courthouse at its center but those plans never came to fruition. 18Įager to see the area developed, William offered to provide a home a district court representing Botetourt, Greenbrier, Kanawha, and Montgomery counties 4 and constructed a courthouse and jail in 1795 which were used as guests quarters in the off-season and the first circuit court session. 1 4 16 18 The first record of a visitor to the resort was in 1790 but accommodations consisted of just a few log cabins. William initially built a two-story cabin at Sweet Chalybeate (formerly known as Red Springs) about a mile from Sweet Springs 18 but moved to Sweet Springs in 1784. 7 16 Moss, who held no title to the land, was forced to vacate in 1774 when King George III gave a land grant to William Lewis, brother of General Andrew Lewis who commanded the Virginia militia at the Battle of Point Pleasant and of Charles Lewis who died in that battle, and son of John Lewis, founder of Augusta County, Virginia. The first permanent settler in the Sweet Springs, Virginia valley was James Moss who erected a cabin at Sweet Springs in 1760. 16 John, along with his sons William, Andrew, and Charles, first scouted the Sweet Springs valley in 1754. This is an opportunity for you to take a step inside & experience another dimension unlike you’ve ever heard or experienc ed.John Lewis, born in Donegal, Ireland in 1678, fled to America in the late 1720s after he had killed an oppressive landlord who had murdered his brother. This episode from Destination Fear has provided all of us crucial & insightful information about the afterlife. This location is a chaotic mix of spirits from being helpful, confused to manic insanity! This is the real deal & they intrigued me with their own bravery. I have never had the opportunity to experience a haunted location such as this & I am grateful to the Destination Fear crew for allowing me to absorb insight & learn from their own experience there. I am highly skilled having translated thousands of hours of EVP’s. I have studied & experimented with sound phenomena for years translating evp’s & energy manipulated from sound that is picked up on electronic devices. This is not only PHENOMENAL, but extremely INSIGHTFUL spirit communication taken from Destination Fear’s episode at Sweet Springs Sanitorium! You will experience spirit phenomena as if you were in the sanitorium with the crew! Spirits will talk, interact & answer like never before! I translated the sound and added my own subtitles on top of the completed show’s video. Included in this video are Evp’s that I heard, I translated and I added to a “Destination Fear” episode named Sweet Springs Sanitorium. WARNING: THIS IS EXTREMELY INTENSE & NOT FOR THE WEAK OF HEART
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