NRHP Reference # 88003204 Designated VLR April 21, 1987 Year built 1853 | VLR # 081-0086 Area 16 ha Added to NRHP 19 January 1989 | |
Location Address Restricted, near California, Virginia Architectural style Greek Revival, Gothic Revival Address George Washington and Jefferson National Forest, Goshen, VA 24439, USA | ||
Rockbridge alum springs historic district top 5 facts
Rockbridge Alum Springs Historic District, also known as Jordan Alum Springs, is a historic 19th-century resort complex and national historic district near California, Rockbridge County, Virginia. The district encompasses 16 contributing buildings, 10 contributing sites, and 4 contributing structures dating primarily to the 1850s, and associated with the operations of the Rockbridge Alum Springs, a popular 19th- and early-20th century mountain resort. The buildings are the barroom, store/post office, Montgomery Hall, the Gothic Building, the Alum Springs Pavilion, two cottages of Baltimore Row, the Ladies Hotel, four cottages of Kentucky Row, Jordan's House, a servant's quarters, a slave quarters, and a storehouse. The remaining structures are a well and the stone spring chambers and gazebo and bandstand of the Jordan Alum Springs. The sites are primarily those of demolished cottages. It is one of the best-preserved antebellum springs resort complexes in Virginia. The resort remained in operation until 1941. It is currently owned and operated by Young Life, a non-denominational Christian youth organization who use the camp for summer and winter trips.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.