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Washington first came to Berkeley Springs in 1748. Fairfax gave the springs to the public, and the town was established in 1776. Virginia treated her sick soldiers here. In 1777, Gen. Washington, Gen Buchanan, Gen. Gates, Charles Carroll, and others bought lots. From 1782 to 1785, James Rumsey lived here as a miller, innkeeper, and inventor of the steamboat. He demonstrated a model of his boat before Washington in 1784 and continued his experiments here and elsewhere until his public demonstration of 1787.
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Bath (Berkeley Springs), West Virginia · United States
