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Hot Springs, Virginia
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
or A hamlet and health-resort in Cedar Creek District, Bath county, Virginia, U.S.A., 25 m. by rail (a branch of the Chesapeake & Ohio railway) N. by E. of Covington and near the N.W. border of the state. It lies in a narrow valley, about2200-2500ft. above the sea, with rugged mountains on either side. Pop. of the district (1890) 867, (1900) 1761. The mean summer temperature is only 69° F., and the summer nights are always cool. There is a good golf-course. Mineral waters (with magnesia, soda-lithia and alum) issue from several springs, some at a temperature as high as 106° F., and are used both for drinking and for bathing. The Warm Sulphur Springs (about 98° F.) are 5 m. N.; Healing Springs (85° F.) are 22 m. S. of Hot Springs; and a few miles to the S.E., in Rockbridge county, are Rockbridge and Jordan Alum Springs.
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Hot Springs, Virginia'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/h/hot-springs-virginia.html. 1910.
