White Sulfur Springs, West Virginia
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Location in West Virginia
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| State : | United States | ||
| State : | West Virginia | ||
| County : | Greenbrier County | ||
| Coordinates : | 37 ° 48 ′ N , 80 ° 18 ′ W | ||
| Time zone : | Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 ) | ||
| Residents : | 2,513 (as of: 2000) | ||
| Population density : | 492.7 inhabitants per km 2 | ||
| Area : | 5.1 km 2 (approx. 2 mi 2 ) of which 5.1 km 2 (approx. 2 mi 2 ) is land |
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| Height : | 566 m | ||
| Postal code : | 24986 | ||
| Area code : | +1 304 | ||
| FIPS : | 54-86812 | ||
| GNIS ID : | 1555971 | ||
The small town of White Sulfur Springs is located in Greenbrier County of West Virginia , USA .
location
White Sulfur Springs is located in southeastern West Virginia. There is an Amtrak train station of the same name on the Cardinal route.
history
The hot springs established its function as a bathing resort for the summer months in the first half of the 19th century ( Queen of the Watering Places ).
The place is important for golf history because the Montague family founded Oakhurst Links there in 1884, the oldest golf club in the USA.
During the Second World War, German diplomats were temporarily interned in the Hotel Greenbrier in a very comfortable way (December 1941 - May 1942).
In the years 1958–1961, as part of the expansion of the hotel (the so-called West Virginia Wing), a government bunker was built right next to the luxury hotel in strictest secrecy.
Sons and daughters
- John L. Hines (1868–1968), US Army General and Chief of Staff of the Army from 1924–1926
- Katherine Johnson (1918-2020), mathematician
Literature, web links
- Michael S. Cullen : Warlike Idyll. How the US took the German Embassy hostage and the Germans the US Embassy in 1941 A bizarre episode in German-American diplomacy history. In: Die Zeit 28/2008 p. 84 of July 3, 2008
- Tourist tour of the Greenbrier nuclear bunker
- geschichtsspuren.de (formerly lostplaces.de) Description of the facility with pictures
Individual evidence
- ↑ Oakhurst Links
- ↑ The Washington Post on the Emergency Relocation Center to Protect US Congress in a Nuclear Attack .