Saratoga Springs (as a North American iteration of spa sociability) [ Sports & Leisure ]
… places began to appear around mineral springs in many parts of the British colonies, in Virginia, Pennsylvania, and New York for example, some of which would never grow beyond much more than a single inn with a gazebo over a mineral … 2 . See, for example Harry B. Weiss and Howard R. Kemble, They Took the Waters. The Forgotten Mineral Spring Resorts of New Jersey and nearby Pennsylvania and Delaware (Trenton, NJ: The Past Times Press, 1961); Carol Sheils Roark, ‘Historic … of relegating the presence of Indigenous peoples to the distant past, which has been studied with great insight in New England by Jean O’Brien in Firsting and Lasting: Writing Indians out of Existence in New England (Minneapolis MN and …
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