White Sulphur Springs Spa Honors 160 Years of Fame
A historical feature hails Greenbrier County and West Virginia anniversaries while recounting White Sulphur Springs rise as a famed resort. It notes President Van Buren establishing the Summer White House and later visits by Tyler Polk Taylor and other leaders, Civil War preservation efforts, and postwar reunions of Southern and Northern elites at Old White and nearby cottages.
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Sulphur Springs
W. Va
Martin Wan Buren
White House
White Sulphur Springs
United States
Greenbrier County
West Virginia
Union
Greenbrier Country
Virginia
Atlantic
Mississippi River
Nicholas
Nathan) Carpenter
Kate
Frances
Virginia Frontier
Little van
Martin van Buren
Bowyer
Anderson
van Buren
John Tyler
Julia Gardner
James K. Polk
Zachary Taylor
Millard Fillmore
Franklin Pierce
James Buchanan
Henry Clay
Stephen Decatur
Caldwell
United States Senate
Henry DuPont
Delaware
David Hunter
Lynchburg
Hunter
du Pont
White
Emily Mason
Mason
Robert E. Lee
Baltimore
Tow
Wade Hampton
South Carolina
Andrew Johnson
Grant
Chester Alan Arthur
Benjamin Harrison
William Howard Taft
Woodrow Wilson
Old White Museum
Tommy Dowling and the Tunisian Rescue at Halifax
In 1918 aboard the S S Tunisian Tommy Dowling a young cabin boy from Woodside New York faced a Chinese mob on deck during the sinking of the S S Tuscania. He clung to a lifeboat fall and climbed to safety on the davits then the bridge deck as the ship fought to Liverpool with two thousand Chinese coolies aboard.
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Ello
Thomas & ‘Dowling
Woodside
Tommy Dowling
England
North Sea
Tommy
Halifax
France
Ireland
Liverpool
S. S. Tuscania
S. S. Tunisian
Tuscania
Prevention and Cure and the Call to Aid the Suffering
This passage urges vigilance against danger and the power of spiritual vitality. It emphasizes visiting prisoners and the sick, arguing it is better to prevent illness and imprisonment by fulfilling moral duty and aiding others. It stresses proactive mercy over mere visitation.
New England Primer Fueled Colonial Demand
The New England Primer was in high demand in colonial times with editions reaching tens of thousands, yet presses could not meet the trade. A Mundelein College, Chicago authority notes the Primer served as a combined abecedarium, speller, reader, and catechism teaching essential Church and State basics.
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New England
Mundelein College
Chicago
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