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The first settler in the area was James Taylor, who built a house there after 1730. About 1816 Jonathan and William Taylor leased the site to the Rockingham Circuit of the Methodist Episcopal Church for use as a camp meeting ground. The annual meetings were extremely popular, and the springs were reported as having healing properties.
The inn's 140 acres includes 513 guest rooms, 10 restaurants and bars, an 18-hole golf course, subterranean spa, 42 meeting rooms, two ballrooms, two swimming pools, and nine tennis courts. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The Grove Park Inn is a member of the Historic Hotels of America program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation .
Cascades Course logo. The Homestead features two golf courses. The club is sometimes referred to as Virginia Hot Springs Golf & Tennis Club. The area produced an 82-time winner on the PGA Tour in the late Sam Snead. The Old Course started as a six-hole layout in 1892, and the first tee is the oldest in continuous use in the United States. [14]
Sep. 2—EDGEWOOD — After receiving a golf course and restaurant as a gift, the town of Edgewood has tackled the challenge of running both facilities. Gary Reynolds donated the property to the ...
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Rockingham House again burned down in a fire started by an electrical fault in 1957. What remained of the estate was sold by Sir Cecil Stafford-King-Harman, to the Irish Land Commission in May 1959. [12] The Land Commission officially took control of the estate in November 1959. [13] The remains of the house were finally demolished in 1971. [14]
Harrisonburg was named for Thomas Harrison (1704–1785), an early settler. [20]The earliest documented English exploration of the area prior to settlement was the Knights of the Golden Horseshoe Expedition, led by Lt. Gov. Alexander Spotswood, who reached Elkton, and whose rangers continued and in 1716 likely passed through what is now Harrisonburg.
Rockingham Historic District is a national historic district located at Rockingham, Richmond County, North Carolina. The district encompasses 181 contributing buildings and 1 contributing site in a predominantly residential section of Rockingham. It includes buildings built between the early-19th century through the early 20th century in a ...