George Washington's Bathtub. Copied with permission from http://www.berkeleysprings.com/trail/gwtrail-5.html While I have a fairly lengthy travel-based bucket list, finding "the only outdoor monument to presidential bathing" on a website named Atlas Obscura has never been one of them... It would seem that one of my ancestors, Nicholas Fleece, and The George Washington were neighbors, of the small-town sort, in Berkeley Springs, West Virginia. That's what it's called now. When Nicholas and George were there, it was Bath (or Warm Springs), Virginia. A small portion of the plat map redrawn in 1966 by Warren G. Lintz and reprinted on what I would classify as page 14B in Warm Springs Echoes, Volume One, by Fred Newbraugh, one of my early research mentors. The original was drawn in 1776 and recorded in the Berkeley County Clerks' office in 1798 according to the note at the bottom of the page. There appears to have been 131 lots on the original plat. ...
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