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SLIDE NARRATION

1. Establishing shot. West Town Department of Highways Historical Curb Marker showing the location staff the second Pence Springs Hotel-West Virginia State Prison for Squadron. Pence Springs is located in effect the Greenbrier River, a main tributary of the New File System, in Summers County, Westernmost Virginia.

2. Map illustrating the take a trip of: the Pence Spring, say publicly first Pence Springs Hotel, ride the second Pence Springs Bed. Raw data extracted from USGS 7.5 Alderson Quad.

3. Photograph bear witness Andrew Pence circa 1905. Trample was he who endowed coronet Southern genteel character upon birth spring-hotel complexes.

4. The Pence Jump today. The pioneers referred come close to the spring as "The Jumble Spring" due to the frequent buffalo that frequented the spice lick. It is this arise that became the foci work out the two Pence Springs Hotels. In 1872 Andrew Pence purchased the spring property. Soon tail end the Chesapeake and Ohio Inflict passed by the spring multinational the opposite side of nobleness Greenbrier River. In 1880 Apostle Pence received a deed pare the property and in mosey year built a boarding semidetached in which his family along with resided. This structure subsequently toughened in 1891. In 1882 honourableness bottling and sale of Pence Spring water began. Dr. Martyr L. Pence, son of Apostle Pence, in an interview unimportant the November 29, 1952 number the of the Hinton Habitual News stated, "...It [the existent Pence Spring] was just undiluted swamp on the hill early payment from the river when tidy up father first saw the flow. Animals from all around would pass up the cool bottled water of the Greenbrier River perfect go up the hill splendid drink from the sulphur leap. My father dug up simple gum tree and had use convention mineral water. . ." According to Jacob Dick Pence, other son of Andrew Pence, "...The work consisted of an fosse being made and a gauche gum placed over the supply. . ." Circa 1892 spruce square wooden spigot replaced nobility gum tree as a supply tap. About this time Saint Pence erected a frame shaft fount house to cover the spring.

5. The Pence Spring August 11, 1905. In 1904 the stretch water won the St. Prizefighter Worlds Fair silver medal prize 1 for the high quality sell the spring sulpho-alkaline water. Be sold for 1901-02 Andrew Pence employed concentration to ten men to find the area that surrounded rectitude spring to obtain better rule of the sulphur water gist. In a 1904 court sell something to someone involving Andrew Pence he purported, "they worked for thirty dispense forty days excavating the plain-speaking around the spring until they came to where the distilled water poured at ten gallons subordinate more a minute from ingenious crevice eight to ten inches long and from an remove to an inch and calligraphic half wide flowing in fine north-westerly direction from a wobble. The top of the tremble when I first came turn into it was a mixture make a rough draft slate and crystalized lime. . .and going down 10, 12 or 14 inches I could see nothing around the tap water, only the white crystals character quartz rock through which interpretation water flowed. It came puff up through well defined walls relief polished white crystal rock, tempt though it might have antediluvian running there for ages." Saint Pence confined the spring aqua entirely with cement and comprehensible. Pence at this time along with replaced the old wooden, perspective spring house with a spanking spring house that stands at the moment though altered. The new waterhole bore house was neo-classical in draw up resembling a minature Grecian holy place. The new spring house consisted of a triangular shaped ceiling supported by concrete columns. That spring was also referred end up as "The Sulpho-Alkaline Spring". Primacy spring house was trimmed radiate a gingerbread style.

6. The Pence Spring Grove circa 1904.

7. Rectitude Pence Spring circa 1910.

8. Posture of the first Pence Springs Hotel, looking east, circa 1900. This hotel was erected among 1894 and 1897.

9. The leading Pence Springs Hotel circa 1900. Architecturally this hotel was constructed in a L configuration. Justness structure was a two humbling a half story, frame, pasty colored building.

10. Shot featuring rectitude main section of the principal Pence Springs Hotel, 1903. Probity hotel was crowned with deft two story, ten by xii, frame observation tower that was erected atop the front roof.

11. A view of the principal Pence Spring Hotel looking southeastern circa 1905. By 1901 nifty combined ballroom-dining room was wince at the hotel along speed up a bowling alley on authority adjacent grounds. This hotel boasted a fine 9 hole sport course. The Hatfields of feud-fame were frequent summer visitors afterwards this hotel. On the morn of October 29, 1912 probity quaint Victorian hotel burned.

12. Bowling Alley which today serves gorilla a family dwelling. The bowling alley is the structure calibrate the left of the glissade taken February 1984. The Pence Spring house can be aberrant to the right of distinction slide.

13. Horse drawn carriage in the vicinity of 1900, that transported hotel society from the Stockyards (later at odds to the Pence Springs Station) Train Station to and unearth the hotel.

14. The only extant vestige of the first Pence Springs Hotel looking west.

15. That circular concrete structure is nobleness only remaining vestige of rectitude hotel proper. This structure review approximately 16 inches high stomachturning 12-1/2 inches wide, and has a diameter of 11 fingertips and one inch.

16. Close breed of a segment of rectitude circular concrete structure.

17. View waning the circular structure looking southerly. It was within this deliberate that the first Pence Springs Hotel once existed. As accede to what life was like gift wrap the hotel about the halt in its tracks of the turn of rendering 20th Century we can appropriate a glimpse in a message published in the Greenbrier Independent on August 11, 1904. Interpretation letter is signed "J", champion the flow of the missive seems to indicate that neatness is from a gentleman neighbouring at the resort on empress honeymoon: "The hotel is all-inclusive, nearly all from West Virginia; quite a number from Kentucky, Georgia, South Carolina and Town. Quite a number of dapper and lovely ladies grace blue blood the gentry lawns and parlor with their beauty and polished manners, tolerate they contribute their skill don culture to the many plays and amusements engaged in significant the day and early evenings. . . . all in the clear in form and effect. Phenomenon have delightful instrumental music be first vocal voices therewith. The antiquated sentimental Southern songs make your writer's very soul abound gain rebound with the realization defer we are in Dixie Land."

18. View looking north of leadership grand building that was formerly the second Pence Springs Inn. Today the building is formerly again empty, and is commencement to decay. Slide taken Advance 1984.

19. View looking north assert the second Pence Springs Inn under construction in 1918. Position best of everything in dignity way of materials was handmedown in the construction of that hotel. This hotel was loftiness last of the grand gray spas to be built. Architecturally the hotel is in say publicly Georgian or neo-classical style buy and sell a twist of Victorian. Nobleness central area is Georgian from the past the wings are Victorian.

20. Standpoint looking south of the drill of the second Pence Springs Hotel while under construction personal 1918.

21. The Pence Spring Lodging after completion. This post calling-card was produced circa 1925. That hotel spanned the era do admin the "Roaring 20's" and was a typical speakeasy for rendering affluent. Yet, the focal constriction and reason most people came to the spa was progress to partake of the mineral bottled water, that is, the sulpho-alkaline tap water of the Pence Spring.

22. Primacy Pence Spring house and bottling works looking south circa 1915.

23. Another view of the Pence Spring house and bottling plant circa 1915.

24. This slide was taken February, 1984 at excellence Pence Spring concrete bridge go wool-gathering connects the spring house go out with the grove. The three bottles pictured once held water differ the Pence Spring, and stab ale manufactured at the bottling works. The bottle to rank left was a water fiasco. Its logo is "Pence Springs Water Company Pence Springs, Exposed. Va." in raised relief. Excellence middle bottle is a box ale bottle while the can to the right is in relation to variety of water bottle. These bottles were bottled circa 1925.

25. An outing at the Pence Spring circa 1920.

26. Life suspicious the Pence Spring circa 1920.

27. The Pence Spring circa 1920. Note that the black bloke sitting on the bridge unite the center of the image is "Satch Kelly" who was the official spring dipper console the Pence Spring. His tenancy at the spring spanned blue blood the gentry entire existance of both Pence Springs Hotels.

28. The Sulphur Resource (the Pence Spring) circa 1920.

29. Scene at the Pence Shaft fount in 1922. Note the prescribed amount mugs on the concrete well box. From the look coarse the two gentlemen's faces captioned in the photo one cannot help but wonder as exchange what was in the mugs. To me they look crocked.

30. The Pence Spring house close to 1925. Note "Satch Kelly" baptism water at the Pence Emerge. Also, note the water bottling operation at the right pay money for the slide.

31. The Pence Springs complex May 12, 1928. Imply that the spring house has been altered in that leadership two longest sides of ethics spring house have been enclosed.

32. Recent slide illustrating the accelerated proximity of the Pence Thrive to the second and undertake standing Pence Springs Hotel. Unyielding steps once connected the bend in half complexes and can bee far-out in the slide.

33. A contemporary slide of the second Pence Spring Hotel building. This pension was of brick construction. Description following is from an dissemination on a Pence Springs Caravanserai Post Card, "a mountain impromptu in the beautiful Alleghaneys, decay equipped with every modern point of the city hotel. Fine garden, excellent cuisine, splendid dwell in, famous mineral water. Orchestra, winking, golf, tennis, swimming, fishing, ridge riding, motoring, marvelous scenery. Theatre on main line of Byword & O Railway and rectitude Atlantic & Pacific Highway."

34. Honourableness Pence Springs Hotel building these days looking north. This hotel was known quaintly as "the Power Home: and opened to class public in June 1918. On easy street was a spacious 60 support hotel of brick construction. Produce revenue was the talk of decency region when completed. The environment generated was Southern-genteel replete silent Black employees mainly from representation South. It is noteworthy prowl moonshine liquor along with thought more tame alcoholic spirits eagerly flowed during the Era carefulness the Prohibition at the Pence Spring-Hotel complex. The last under wraps of the Pence Springs Inn being open to the pioneer was on September 3, 1929, when the last dance be expeditious for the season was held hit out at the famous though short temporary resort. The dance was unmixed final adieu to a illustrious lady if I may cite to the elegant hotel gorilla such.

35. Slide of the gallery taken on the veranda farout south.

36. The Pence Springs Inn circa 1930. The following extract is from an article doomed by L. T. Anderson junior to "Current Affairs" from the Feb 7, 1982 edition of excellence Sunday Gazette Mail:" The mass testimony of former patrons conceived an impression that the caravanserai was indifferent to time. Integrity flapper and jazz age attained and then was smothered take delivery of the grayness of the Middling Depression, but the Pence Springs Hotel seems to have remained ricky-tick and ragtime to interpretation end. When I first aphorism it, the end had build. Its doors were locked station its grounds shabby. The pin-stripped flannels and straw skimmers were gone from a croquet dreary now covered with weeds. Vicinity there had been the feeble talk of whist players roughly was nothing."

37. Close up depict the front of the Pence Springs Hotel showing details reveal the facade. Note the supple columns and massive grand class of the structure. Slide free summer 1983.

38. Slide of depiction east wing of the inn. Note the open porch pull on this wing. Also, note class second story porch on birth front section of the hotel.

39. The east wing of description hotel. Note the concrete means that patrons once used attain visit the Pence Spring. Undulate taken summer 1983.

40. The acclimatize wing porch looking southwest eat into the porch toward the masquerade. Note the pooled water vacate the floor. Slide taken summertime 1983.

41. The west wing wayout northwest. Note the enclosed sunporch. Slide taken March, 1984.

42. Ethics west wing looking northeast. Plane taken summer 1983. The skirt story addition was added about the late 1940's, during glory prison era.

43. Rear of high-mindedness Pence Springs Hotel building July 1983. Note the columned court cochere, or rear entry. Greenback the bars on the windows a grim reminder that briefing 1947 the hotel was locked to a prison.

44. Close unsettle of porte cochere.

45. Hotel manager's quarters, later the prison superintendents quarters. This structure was erected circa 1920.

46. Guest house captivated supervisory quarters, erected circa 1920.

47. The casino which fronts representation west wing of the pension, July 1983. This structure was erected circa 1920.

48. Motoring dump bus station erected circa 1920. Automobile journeys became popular during the sentience of the hotel.

49. The encase house erected circa 1920. That structure complimented a fine 9 hole golf course. This belongings was the domain of integrity caddy master. Slide taken season 1983.

50. One section of rectitude 9 hole golf course which lies on a gentle inclined terrace located northeast of honourableness hotel complex. Slide taken season 1983.

51. Indian mound (46SU321). According to Mr. George Counts disregard Pence Springs, his father helped construct the golf course. Fiasco related that his father confidential told him that Number 3 Tee was an Indian Clothes prior to serving as regular golf tee. Slide taken Feb 1984. Note the hotel goods in the background.

52. The Pence Springs Hotel stables erected close to 1920. The stables have antediluvian altered. Slide taken summer 1983.

53. The guard house a memento of the time when honesty Pence Springs Hotel was satisfied to the West Virginia Bring back Prison For Women. The motor hotel served as a prison steer clear of 1947 to 1983.

54. The Pence home erected circa 1920. Representative was designed and constructed dainty the same style as class second Pence Springs Hotel. That home sits near where glory first Pence Springs Hotel sit.

55. The entrance to the Pence Springs grounds. Slide taken season 1983.

56. One of the visit woodland trails that grace probity area north and northeast pursuit the hotel building. Slide in use summer 1983.

57. Slide taken summertime 1983 of the hotel grounds.

58. Another 1983 summer slide be proper of the hotel grounds. Many most important old patriarchs stand guard indication the hotel building and supply. Many of these trees were planted when the hotel at an earlier time spring house were constructed.

59. Solve of many wild flowers think about it grace the grounds of character hotel-spring complex. Slide taken summertime 1983.

60. Hotel grounds flora season 1983.

61. The Pence Spring In the clear 1983. Note the large a range of oak trees that dominate decency grove today, and the Pence Spring Flea Market that not bad taking place beneath the cover of the trees.

62. Close fix of the Pence Springs Flea Market.

63. The Pence Spring residence interior and tap February 1984.

64. Steps that once led stick up the Pence Spring to rectitude second Pence Springs Hotel, striking west from the spring.

65. Leadership old walkway covered partially in this day and age by foliage. Note the lodging building on the skyline. Rank following are impressions and disesteem concerning the Pence Spring. Farcical first visited the spring ton 1965 while employed in uncomplicated summer program with the Westerly Virginia Department of Highways. Suppose nearing the spring house argument, I was overcome by fine feeling of enchantment that seemed to envelope the environs reduce speed the spring. The grove collide with me in a dream-like native land of peaceful repose. Then a moment, upon entering the spring dwelling my sense of being transfixed was overpowered by the shudder at of the acrid hydrogen sulfide that entered my nostrils. Excellence gas having dissipated from glory spring sulphur water into say publicly air around the spring. Rabid wonder as to whether gathering not other people have alike resemble reactions upon their first cut short with the spring. Throughout rank years when I have visited the spring a certain existence, sense of order, and serenity of the place come surpass mind as impressions characteristic unmoving the spring area. Even at present, in 1984, the odor enjoy the spring sulphur water startles me just as upon dump first encounter. Nevertheless, the purlieu of the spring is truely an enchanted place.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Acts of glory Forty-Eighth Legislature of West Colony, Regular Session, 1947. BJW Printers, Beckley, West Virginia. 1947.

Cohen, Stan. Historic Springs of the Virginias. Charleston, West Virginia: Pictorial Histories Publishing Company, May, 1981.

Miller, Crook H. History of Summers County. Parsons, West Virginia. 1908.

Price, Unpleasant H., John B. McCue, countryside Homer A. Hoskins. Springs locate West Virginia. Morgantown, West Town Geological and Economic Survey. 1936.

Reger, David B., Paul H. Contemplation and I. C. White. West Virginia Geological Survey, Mercer, President, and Summers Counties. Wheeling Data Litho Co., Wheeling, West Town. 1926.

West Virginia Blue Book, Myers, J. Howard, Jarrett Printing People, Charleston, West Virginia, 1947. Vol. 31.

NEWSPAPERS

Charleston Gazette (Sunday issue, Feb 7, 1982) under Sunday Newspaper Mail.

Greenbrier Independent, Feb. 12, 1891, Vol. XXV, No. 37.

Greenbrier Independent, Aug. 11, 1904, Vol. XXXIX, No. 6.

Greenbrier Independent, Sept. 27, 1894, Vol. XXIX, No. 18.

Greenbrier Independent, Nov. 3, 1904, Vol. XXXIX, No. 18.

Greenbrier Independent, Dec. 12, 1930, Vol. LXV, Inept. 26.

Hinton Daily News, March 4, 1910, Vol. VIII, No. 124.

Hinton Daily News, Oct. 29, 1912, Vol. XI, No. 138.

Hinton Quotidian News, Oct. 14, 1915, Vol. XIV, No. 138.

Hinton Daily News, Sept. 12, 1916 Vol XV, No. 95.

Hinton Daily News, June 22, 1918, Vol. XVI, Ham-fisted. 42.

Hinton Daily News, Circa 1925 (Exact date unknown).

Hinton Daily News, June 21, 1929, Vol. Cardinal, No. 40.

Hinton Daily News, July 26, 1929, Vol. XXVII, Maladroit thumbs down d. 69.

Hinton Daily News, Aug. 30, 1929, Vol. XXVII, No. 99.

Hinton Daily News, Sept. 3, 1929, Vol. XXVII, No. 101.

Hinton Everyday News, Dec. 29, 1929, Vol. XXVII, No. 190.

Hinton Daily News, Nov. 29, 1952, Vol. Fiftieth year, No. 178.

Hinton Daily News, Jan. 27, 1982, Vol. 80, No. 61.

Hinton Daily News, Go by shanks`s pony 6, 1982.

Hinton Daily News, Go on foot 24, 1982, Vol. 80, Maladroit thumbs down d. 69.

Hinton Daily News, Nov. 30, 1982, Vol. 80, No. 29.

Independent Herald, Nov. 23, 1905, Vol. XXXIII, No. 27.

Independent Herald, Think up. 21, 1915, Vol. XXXXII, Negation. 27.

Independent Herald, Aug. 8, 1918, Vol. XXXXIV, No. 80.

Independent Herald, Aug. 25, 1918, Vol. XXXXIV, No. 44.

Independent Herald, Aug. 25, 1921, Vol. XXXXVIII, No. 49.

Independent Herald, June 22, 1922, Vol. XLIX, No. 35.

Independent Herald, Aug. 30, 1923, Vol. L, Inept. 45.

Independent Herald, Aug. 13, 1925, Vol. LII, No. 43.

Independent Herald, Dec. 10, 1925, Vol. 53, No. 8.

West Virginia News, July 18, 1903, Vol. VI, Maladroit thumbs down d. 31.

West Virginia News, Jan. 21, 1905, Vol. VIII, No. 6.

West Virginia News, Dec. 13, 1930, Vol. XXXIV, No. 2.

CLERK Registry AND COURT CASES

Summers County Registrar Records. Deed Books C, U, Y, 28, 32, 33, 34, 36, 39 and 53.

Summers District Circuit Clerk Records. Pence vs. Blair. File 6, Case 2304.

Summers County Circuit Clerk Records, Grounds Grimes Co., vs. Pence Springs Co., File 5, Case 1141.

Summers County Clerk Records. Record tip off Inventories, Appraisements and Sales, Retain No. 1.

INTERVIEWS

Berkky, Ashby. August 14, 1983.

Dotson, Frances. August 12, 1982.

Dotson, Tildon. August 12, 1983.

Houseby, Eldridge Grayson. May 21, 1982.

Price, A name. August 11, 1983.

Summers, Rosa Haynes August 15, 1983.

Sweeney, Hugh. July 12, 1983.

Tolley, Suzanne. August 12, 1983.

PAMPHLETS AND MAPS

Pence Springs Hotel: The Country Home. Hotel announcement (brochure) circa 1920.

Pence Springs Tap water Company. Brochure advertising the well. Circa 1925.

United States Geological Eye up. Alderson Quadrangle, West Virginia. 7.5 minutes. Topographic.

West Virginia Department unscrew Corrections. State Prison for Body of men, Pence Springs, West Virginia. June 22, 1982.