"Springs at
Home" --- Bladensburg vs. Rockville.
—
Considerable
improvements are going on in Rockville. Our town will shortly present quite a
renovated appearance. Strangers who are now here, to spend the summer months,
seem to be delighted with the village, it's society, scenery and the beauty of
the surrounding country. The health of our village, and indeed, of the whole
County, never was better.
The above
nice little electioneering puffs is of course, from the Rockville Journal. We do not wish to detract in
the least from that agreeable village, and doubt not the summer months could be
safely pass there, although FAHRENHEIT
will stand at as high a figure there has any where else — our own
village of Bladensburg is destined to "take the wind out of its sail"
completely.
It is in
contemplation to erect at the latter place a large and commodious Hotel, where
families can be handsomely and comfortably accommodated. If this be done, there
can be no earthly doubt that Bladensburg will absorb the patronage of all those
persons in the country surrounding — and there [sic] name is Legion — who would
like to of veil themselves for some weeks or months of an extremely healthy
location, without the great expense, trouble, and loss of time incident to a
regular trip to the "Springs." For our part we hope our friends there
will keep the ball rolling, for the realization of this project will be a
source of very great convenience.
The reasons
why Bladensburg is preferable to Rockville and all other neighboring places,
will readily suggest themselves. In the first place, its famous SPA WATER is an invaluable qualification and
inducement. In the second place, it is just as healthy and locality as
Rockville. Thirdly, it is immediately on the railroad, between Washington and
Baltimore, and consequently convenient to either place. We might enumerate many
other points of excellence, such as the hospitality of its citizens, &c., content
ourselves with urging, as a final argument, that it is renowned as the field of
a famous battle. It has thus a "national reputation," and those
patriotic citizens who may tarry there, while enjoying the walks through the
village, the SPA WATER, the health, the
propinquity to the two cities, the hospitality of the people, &c., &c.,
will have the proud consciousness of knowing in the language of a native poet,
that they are
"Standing,
without dread,
Where
their fathers fought and fled."
We think
the idea of "Bladensburg Springs" a decided "card."[1]
[1]
The Planters' Advocate and Southern Maryland Advertiser. June 21, 1854.
Maryland State Archives. [accessed on the web from msa_sc3415_scm3597-0106 - http://mdhistory.net/msa_sc3415/msa_sc3415_scm3597/html/msa_sc3415_scm3597-0106.html]
Transcribed by John
Peter Thompson, June 22nd, 2014.
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