Recent Press Releases
3.8.2008 - SWEET DREAMS Longtime mineral-springs spa resort is being rejuvenated
Sweet Springs Resort rises out of the West Virginia landscape like a baby Versailles. Utterly incongruous in a valley sparsely populated by Mennonites and native West-by-God Virginians, Sweet Springs' 300-foot-long, white-columned Grand Hotel presides over a ghost resort of empty brick cottages and a crumbling bathhouse...read article
10.19.07 - HUNTING CLOSED ON ANDREW S. ROWAN MEMORIAL FARM IN MONROE COUNTY
State property owned by the West Virginia Department of Agriculture known as the Andrew S. Rowan Memorial Farm, encompassing approximately 650 acres, is no longer... read article
10.12.07 - Monroe land leased to resort developer
The state Agriculture Department has signed a contract to lease 625 acres adjacent to the old Sweet Springs Resort in Monroe County, and the resort’s developer intends to use the land for... read article
10.11.07 - PROPERTY LEASE OPENS DOOR FOR REDEVELOPMENT OF HISTORIC RESORT
Work to reinvent an historic Monroe County spa will move forward after Commissioner of Agriculture Gus R. Douglass and resort owner Warren D. Smith signed a long-term lease for 625 acres ... read article