Tag: Warm Springs Virginia

• 22 August 1829 – Third entry

  

  Made an early start, crossed the Warm Spring Mountain, lately improved by turn piking. Passed the Warm Springs where there were forty visitors and Hot Springs, where there were sixty. Were detained on the road by the oversetting and breaking of a South Carolina Sulky. We met in a narow place and he capsized and…

  Dorris Keeven-Franke

  August 22, 2022

  Journey

  Archer Alexander, Hot Springs, Shumates, Virginia, Warm Springs Virginia

• Entry 2 – From Virginia to Missouri

  

  Took a final leave of all my fathers family and turned our faces toward the West. We found the roads very bad and of course traveled slowly. Crossed the North Mountain and at noon ate a harty meal of bread, beef and cheese at a spring on the side of Mill Mountain.

  Dorris Keeven-Franke

  August 21, 2022

  Journey

  Archer Alexander, Lexington Virginia, Warm Springs Virginia, Wesley Alexander