Excerpt from The White Sulphur Springs: The Traditions, History, and Social Life of the Greenbrier White Sulphur Springs To Frank Trumbull, Chairman of the Board of Directors; George W. Stevens, President, and Decatur Axtell, Vice-President of the Chesapeake Ohio Railway Company, - a rare combination of practical genius, splendid executive ability, and never-failing courage and honesty, - who, severally and collectively, have wrought most potently to restore the broken porticoes of the South, lift up her fallen columns, and bring back to her broad harbors and sunlit seas the Lost Armada, which, under the blessing of God, will carry to all peoples in all climes the marvelous products of her fields, mines, and manufactories, this book is most sincerely inscribed as a token of the kindly regard and high esteem of the South. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.