Crockett Springs Resort

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Crockett Springs, just south of here, was a prominent resort that for 50 years attracted visitors from Virginia and beyond. Commercial development of the property began in 1889 when the Virginia Arsenic Bromine and Lithia Springs Company bought the springs from the Crockett family. The resort, with its large hotel, medicinal baths, and recreational activities, stimulated the local economy. Crockett Springs water, reputed to treat a variety of ailments from indigestion to diabetes, was bottled and distributed widely. The resort closed early in the 1940s. The Roanoke District of the Methodist Church acquired the property in 1957 and established a retreat facility known as Alta Mons on the site.

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Roanoke Times, 23 June 1892. Richmond Times-Dispatch, 12 June 1938. James K. Crook, The Mineral Waters of the United States and their Therapeutic Uses (New York and Philadelphia: Lea Brothers & Co., 1899), 484-485. James H. Sublett v. Virginia Arsenic Bromine & Lithia Springs Co., Montgomery County chancery cause, Library of Virginia, 1896. America’s Health Resort: Crockett Springs, Virginia (n.d.) Voices from Eastern Montgomery County, Virginia (Blacksburg: Pocahontas Press, 2012). Crockett Springs, Announcements and General Information (1932). Crockett Springs Cottage, National Register of Historic Places nomination (1989). Mary Elizabeth Lindon, ed., Virginia’s Montgomery County (Christiansburg: Montgomery Museum and Lewis Miller Regional Art Center, 2009). “Crockett Warm Springs,” Blog of the Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia: https://histmed.collegeofphysicians.org/travel-tuesday-27/\ Charles W. Crush, ed., The Montgomery County Story (Christiansburg: Montgomery Museum and Lewis Miller Regional Art Center, 1957). Stan Cohen, Historic Springs of the Virginias: A Pictorial History (Charleston, WV: Pictorial Histories Publishing Co., 1991).