1919 - 1973 ~ Local Life Flourishes ~ Spa in Decline
 


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.

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