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• Title: Yellow Sulphur Springs, 3145 Yellow Sulphur Road, Christiansburg, Montgomery County, VA
• Other Title: Yellow Springs
  Taylor's Springs
• Creator(s): Historic American Landscapes Survey, creator
• Related Names:
     Taylor, Charles
     Forrest, Armistead
     Yellow Sulphur Springs, Inc.
     Early , Jubal
     Poindexter, C. W.
     Cowan, P. R.
     Reid, J. L.
     Brooks, Albert F.
     Burwell, William H.
     Johnson, Henry C.
     Thompson, C. W.
     Coleman, Alvin L.
     Tolliver, C. Tiffany
     Micheaux, Oscar
     Crowell, William B.F.
     Stevens, Chris M.
• Date Created/Published: Documentation compiled after 2000
• Medium: Data Page(s): 10
• Reproduction Number: ---
• Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. (http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html)
  
• Call Number: HALS VA-55
• Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
• Notes:
  • Significance: Long associated with white privilege, the Virginia mineral springs resorts have been identified by historian Charlene Lewis as playing a key role in shaping elite southern society throughout the south - the place where in antebellum Virginia “each Summer, more elite whites congregated…than anywhere else in the south….” Among the Virginia springs frequented by elite whites during the antebellum and post-Civil War periods was Yellow Sulphur Springs located in Montgomery County near Christiansburg. Originally developed in the first decade of the nineteenth century by Charles Taylor as Taylor’s Springs, later known as Yellow Springs, the spa featured a two story hotel and springs on 160 acres. Yellow Springs became one of the stops on the nineteenth century spring’s circuit that extended throughout the western part of present day Virginia and into eastern West Virginia. Additional acreage and expanded accommodations, including cottage rows, were added by Armistead W. Forrest, who purchased the Springs in 1842. Renamed Yellow Sulphur Springs in 1853, the spring complex would eventually include a second hotel, individual cottages, a bowling alley, and ponds in addition to the original hotel and spring. Following the Civil War the Virginia Springs were frequented by many former Confederate officers. Among the spring’s most famous patrons was former Confederate General, Jubal Early who made Yellow Sulphur his “summer home” following the Civil War. Yellow Sulphur would pass through various owners until its supposed demise in 1923 when most histories note that the Yellow Sulphur Springs “closed for good.” However, black Virginians began to frequent a select group of mineral springs that catered specifically to African Americans in the late nineteenth century. The development and popularity of these early black springs set the stage for the purchase in 1926 of Yellow Sulphur Springs by Yellow Sulphur Springs, Inc. a company formed by 10 prominent black businessmen from nearby Roanoke, Virginia. The resort served the African American community for the next few years until it was sold on the Montgomery County Courthouse steps in the spring of 1929.
  • Survey number: HALS VA-55
  • Building/structure dates: ca. 1842 Subsequent Work
  • Building/structure dates: ca. 1926 Subsequent Work
  • National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 79003057
• Subjects:
  • health resorts
  • African Americans
  • springhouses
  • springs (bodies of water)
  • bathing
  • vacations
  • hotels
  • taverns (inns)
  • cottages
  • barns
  • servants' quarters
• Place:
  • Virginia -- Montgomery County -- Christiansburg
• Latitude/Longitude: 37.12972, -80.40917
• Collections:
  • Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record/Historic American Landscapes Survey
• Part of: Historic American Landscapes Survey (Library of Congress)
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