MERRIWETHER COUNTY, GA - HISTORY  Chalybeate Spring

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The Upson Pilot

=======Saturday morning, May 26, 1860 #28=======
Dancing Academy. Chalybeate Spring. Prof Duesberry
will open a Dancing Academy on 1st of June.

Chalybeate Spring. This spot so celebrated for its
health and natural beauty has been recently much
improved by the present Proprietor, Dr. Leitner. The
cabins have been newly painted and whitewashed and
the Spring without any change in the original
formation has been walled in with marble and
enclosed by an elegant circular structure with green
latttices and a cemented floor. The old Ball Room
has been converted into two comfortable parlors for
Ladies and a new Dancing Salon some distance removed
from the main building, is now far advanced toward
completion.  The Dr. will have the whole lighted
with gas.

If refined society, excellent medical water, good
eating and drinking, kind attention, together with
music and dancing can cheer the invalid and make the
healthy thankful for blessings, then the Chalybeate
will be the great Summer resort.  With such an
attraction in our very midst , it is a wonder to us
that any Southerner would go to Saratoga or even to
Virginia to be eased of his cash, be snubbed by
greedy Landlords and impudent Servants and pant for
breath in small close rooms piled up with tremendous
trunks and bandboxes and tortured at last to death
by perfumed fops, mock noblemen and flippant
senseless belles. We too often spurn the treasures
at our feet to follow the phantom pleasure in
intricate mazes through the world.