Spa In colonial America

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• Some European colonists delivered with them know-how of the recent water therapy for medicinal purposes, and others found out the advantages of warm springs from the Native Americans. Europeans gradually acquired many of the warm and cold springs from the numerous Indian tribes. They then advanced the spring to healthy European tastes. By the 1760s, British colonists have been traveling to warm and bloodless springs in Connecticut, Pennsylvania, New York, and Virginia searching for water cures. Among the more regularly visited of these springs were Bath, Yellow, and Bristol Springs in Pennsylvania; and Warm Springs, Hot Springs, and White Sulphur Springs (now in West Virginia) in Virginia. In the remaining decade of the 1700s, New York spas had been starting to be frequented by using intrepid vacationers, most substantially Ballston Spa. Nearby Saratoga Springs and Kinderhook had been but to be determined.

• Colonial doctors gradually commenced to recommend hot springs for illnesses. Dr. Benjamin Rush, American patriot and physician, praised the springs of Bristol, Pennsylvania, in 1773. Dr. Samuel Tenney in 1783 and Dr. Valentine Seaman in 1792 examined the water of Ballston Spa in New York and wrote of viable medicinal uses of the springs. Hotels have been constructed to deal with site visitors to the numerous springs. Entrepreneurs operated establishments wherein the travelers may want to hotel, devour, and drink. Thus commenced the fitness resort enterprise within the United States.