This pictorial history recollects days gone by, when people sought the physical comfort and fashionable social life of the springs, spas, and their resorts throughout Virginia and West Virginia. Historic Springs contains descriptions and photographs of 75 places where people came to “take the waters”; they reached their peak of popularity in the mid-1800s. Many of these spots were luxurious resorts, where most visited not for their health, but for the “eating, drinking, dancing and revelry.” Others springs sites had more humble surroundings, and were frequented by families who often camped and brought their own food. This book will be of interest to historians and anyone living in the region.