PUBLIC "-//University of Virginia::Library::Special Collections Dept.//TEXT (US::ViU::00962::Sweet Chalybeate Springs Records)//EN" "ViU00962.sgm" A Guide to the Sweet Chalybeate Springs RecordsSweet Chalybeate Springs Records. 38-16Processed by Sharon Defibaugh; machine-readable finding aid created by Elizabeth SlombaFunded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. University of Virginia Library © 1997 By the Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia. All rights reserved.

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 Machine-readable finding aid derived from WordPerfect. [Date of source: 1997. Description is in English. Feb 17, 2004 PUBLIC "-//University of Virginia::Library::Special Collections Dept.//TEXT (US::ViU::00962::Sweet Chalybeate Springs Records)//EN" "ViU00962.sgm" converted from EAD 1.0 to 2002 by v1to02.xsl (sy2003-10-15). Feb 27, 2004 converted to conform to eadVIVA.dtd by vivastrict.xsl A Guide to the Sweet Chalybeate Springs Records A Collection in the Special Collections Department 38-16

Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library 1997 Sharon Defibaugh 1997 Elizabeth Slomba Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, #38-16 Descriptive Summary University of Virginia. Library. Special Collections Dept.
Alderman Library University of Virginia Charlottesville, Virginia 22903 USA
Sweet Chalybeate Springs Records 1892-1916 38-16 ca. 4500 items English W.M.E. Rachal Administrative Information Access Restrictions

Collection is open to research.

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See the University of Virginia Library’s use policy.

 Preferred Citation

Sweet Chalybeate Springs Records, Accession 38-16, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library

 Acquisition Information

These records were given in 1935 to the Library by W.M.E. Rachal.

 Funding Note

Funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities

 Scope and Content

The records of Sweet Chalybeate Springs, a summer resort in Alleghany County, Virginia, managed by B.F. Eakle, Jr., consist of ca. 4500 items (5 Hollinger boxes, 2 linear shelf feet), 1892-1916, and chiefly comprises ledgers and business correspondence pertaining to the resort.

The correspondence file of B.F. Eakle, Jr., 1895-1913, contains business letters and a few personal letters to Eakle. The correspondence of 1914-1915, also largely business, includes numerous letters to his children and friends.

The nine volumes of ledgers include check books issued by the Bank of Union, an inventory of goods with a record of miscellaneous charges, and day books showing petty disbursements, orders for horses, saddles, and buggies, and sales of candy, tobacco, and other small items. Another day book, a fragment of a single page evidently kept by B.O. Blackford, assistant manager, and George K. Anderson, Jr., clerk, shows miscellaneous charges for eggs, potatoes, plaster, and a spigot.

The collection also contains about 700 accounts and bills, 1900-1915, and undated, and some printed matter, including brochures advertising the Springs.