Topics Related to Health Resorts

Sulphur Springs (P-53)

Health & social resort during the nineteenth century; patronized by low-country planters. Springs are 600 yds. S.

Hot Springs (P-24)

Health resort since 1800. Name changed from Warm Springs, 1886. Internment camp for Germans in World War I was here.

Catawba Springs (O-49)

Fashionable "watering place," a recreational and social center prior to 1861. The hotel stood five miles northeast.

Lenox Castle (J-59)

Also called Rockingham Springs. Council of State met here, 1790. Owned by John Lenox, Archibald D. Murphey, & Thomas Ruffin. Famous health resort.

The Glass House (G-74)

Noted winter health resort patronized by Northern hunters and tuberculosis patients. Opened 1871; burned 1893. Site is 1/2 mi. W.

Kittrell's Springs (G-42)

Health resort, social & recreational center in the 19th century. Site of N.C.’s first Confederate General Hospital, 1861-1865. Springs ½ mi. W.

Shocco Springs (E-21)

Famous health resort, social and recreational center, in nineteenth century. 4 1/2 miles southeast.