GEORGE WAHTINGTON'S
BATHTUB

The country’s only outdoor monument to presidential bathing is along the west side of Berkeley Springs State Park. A major spring can be seen bubbling up through the tub. On his visits before 1784, Washington would have bathed in the springs using scooped-out pools lined with sand and rocks and screened by woven brush. The existing stone tub was constructed to represent those early bathing conditions.

Washington wrote of his frequent visits to the springs.

“We found of both sexes about 250 people at this place, full of all manner of diseases and complaints; some of which are benefited, while others find no relief from the waters . . . I think myself benefitted from the water and am not without hope of their making a cure of me -- a little time will show now . . .”
Washington’s letter to Reverend Charles Green — August 26, 1761