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Persoonlijke gegevens Colonel William Lynn Lewis, M.D. 

• Hij is geboren op 17 november 1729 in County Donegal, Ulster Province, Ireland.
• Beroep: Soldier, Colonel, Doctor.
• (Marriage) op 18 april 1754 in Wilmington, New Castle, Delaware, United States.
• (Marriage) in het jaar 1755 in Augusta, Virginia.
• Hij is overleden november 1811 in Sweet Springs, Monroe County, Virginia, United States, hij was toen 81 jaar oud.
• Hij is begraven op 16 november 1784 in Lewis Family Cemetery, Sweet Springs, Monroe County, West Virginia, United States.

  Let op: Begraven (16 november 1784) voor overlijden (??-11-1811).

Gezin van Colonel William Lynn Lewis, M.D.

Hij is getrouwd met Ann Montgomery.

Zij zijn getrouwd.

Kind(eren):

1. Margaret Lynn Lewis  1755-1814
2. John Lewis  1758-1823
3. Major Thomas Lewis  1761-1804
4. Alexander Lewis  1763-1797
5. Col. William I. Lewis  1766-1828
6. Agatha Lewis  1774-1831
7. Nancy Ann Lewis  1777-1815
8. Elizabeth Montgomery Lewis  1777-1837
9. Dr. Charles W. Lewis  1780-1827

Notities over Colonel William Lynn Lewis, M.D.

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r simply “Old Sweet” for its long history. The first hotel was erected in 1792 by William Lewis who first developed a resort around the spring. William Lewis was a Revolutionary War veteran and the brother of General Andrew Lewis, who commanded Virginia militia at the Battle of Point Pleasant, and of Charles Lewis, who died in that battle. From 1795 to 1807, a Virginia district court representing the counties of Botetourt, Greenbrier, Kanawha, and Montgomery met at the Sweet Springs resort.

s, the present large brick hotel was constructed with columned porticos. Its design was long attributed to Thomas Jefferson but more recently has been accredited to a Jefferson associate. A second large building and five cottages were erected in 1857. Sweet Springs, during this period, was a day’s carriage drive from eight other mineral spring resorts in what was termed the ‘‘Springs Region’’ of pre-Civil War Virginia. Guests would frequently make a circuit of several mineral springs resorts during the busy summer season sampling the water and social life at each. Famous visitors to Sweet Springs included George and Martha Washington, General Lafayette, Chief Justice John Marshall, Jerome Bonaparte, Patrick Henry, James and Dolley Madison, and Robert E. Lee. Presidents Pierce and Fillmore also visited the resort.

ty of the resort, but there is no record that the buildings were harmed. Sweet Springs continued to attract guests after the Civil War, but many potential visitors preferred to go to resorts that were more convenient to the rail lines.

Allen T. Caperton and Oliver Bierne of nearby Union. It came back into the hands of the Lewis family from 1902 to 1920 and operated under a succession of owners until it went into receivership in 1930.

e National Register of Historic Places in 1970. A major renovation was undertaken from 1972 to 1975. The Rowan Home was closed in 1991, and the state turned the facility over to Monroe County to establish a rehabilitation center for drug addicts. This project failed, and in 1996 the former resort was sold into private hands. In 2005, Sweet Springs was sold again, and the new owner hoped to restore the resort to its former glory. However, on November 12, 2015, the resort was auctioned to Ashby Berkley, along with equipment and facilities to bottle the famous Sweet Springs mineral water, for $560,000.

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