1919 – 1973 ~ Local Life Flourishes ~ Spa in Decline
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1919 — Pagoda Spring House in park demolished 1929 — Park acquires more land. Current main bathhouse built. 1931 — Current bandstand built 1933 — Park View Inn built on site of former Berkeley Springs Hotel. Continues today as the Country Inn. 1934 — Cacapon State Park built as CCC project. President Franklin D. Roosevelt visits the springs and “The Pines,” a polio rehabilitation center now War Memorial Hospital. 1937 — Tomato Festival begins. World War 2 cuts reign short at five. 1950-51 — Victorian Bath House demolished; replaced with current outdoor swimming pool — first in West Virginia. |