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Botetourt Springs, Virginia

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Edward Carvin inherited the Sulphur Springs homeplace and approximately 900 acres from his father, William Carvin II, in 1804. Edward sold the homeplace and 474 acres to Christian and Martin Wingart who sold the land to Charles Johnston in two transactions between 1818 and 1826. Around 1820,
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With the increase in travel on the road west, the hotel and its springs stayed popular through the 1830s. Johnston died in 1833 and was buried on the property. By 1839, with the opening of other hotels in the area, the popularity of Botetourt Springs ebbed and it was closed in 1839.
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In 1842, the property, including the buildings and 600 acres, was purchased by an agent for Valley Union Seminary, a Baptist organization. The seminary, founded in the same year, became
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The Carvin Lands on Carvin Creek was a 150-acre parcel granted to William Carvin in 1746. Carvin expanded the acreage and his son, William Carvin II, inherited the property.
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Johnston's nephew, Edward Johnston, bought the property and converted the hotel to a school, the Roanoke Female Seminary. This seminary was unsuccessful.
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A Pictorial Description of the United States: Embracing the History, Geographical Position, Agricultural and Mineral Resources, Robert Sears
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The mineral springs of the United States and Canada: with analyses and notes on the prominent spas of Europe, and a list of sea-side resorts
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Johnston built a hotel and cottages around the spring, naming it Botetourt Springs after the county in which it was located.
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Clinical companion to "Physiological materia medica": a compendium of diseases, their homoeopathic and accessory treatment
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A Place Apart: A Brief History of the Early Williamson Road and North Roanoke Valley Residents and Places
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In its time, it was one of the best known mineral springs in Virginia, and one of the chief
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Botetourt Springs has two springs, one of sulfur and the other of
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Former settlement and resort in Virginia, United States
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Botetourt Springs
Botetourt Springs is located in Virginia
37°21′13″N 79°56′12″W / 37.35361°N 79.93667°W / 37.35361; -79.93667
Country
United States
Virginia
Roanoke County
mineral spring
Roanoke County, Virginia
Botetourt County, Virginia
United States
Fincastle
sulfuric
thermal springs
General Andrew Jackson
General Lafayette
chalybeate
magnesia
sulfur
carbonic acid
Andrew Jackson
General Lafayette
Hollins University
post office
Virginia and Tennessee Railroad
Oldfields
Roanoke
William Henry Roberts
Our Whole Country: Or, The Past and Present of the United States, Historical and Descriptive. In Two Volumes, Containing the General and Local Histories and Descriptions of Each of the States, Territories, Cities, and Towns of the Union; Also Biographical Sketches of Distinguished Persons, John Warner Barber
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