Jump to content
Main menu
Main menu
move to sidebar
hide
Navigation
Main page
Recent changes
Random page
Help about MediaWiki
Special pages
Niidae Wiki
Search
Search
Appearance
Create account
Log in
Personal tools
Create account
Log in
Pages for logged out editors
learn more
Contributions
Talk
Editing
Farmville, Virginia
(section)
Page
Discussion
English
Read
Edit
View history
Tools
Tools
move to sidebar
hide
Actions
Read
Edit
View history
General
What links here
Related changes
Page information
Appearance
move to sidebar
hide
Warning:
You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you
log in
or
create an account
, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.
Anti-spam check. Do
not
fill this in!
===Farmville Lithia Springs=== {{Infobox company |website = |name = Farmville Lithia Springs |image = Farmville_Lithia_Springs_Water_Advertisement_from_Philadelphia.png |image_caption = Farmville Lithia Springs Water Advertisement from Philadelphia |type = Private |foundation = {{Start date|1884|08|24}} |defunct = {{End date|1901|07|07}} (dissolved) |fate = Bottling House burned down.<ref name="Covington">{{cite web |url = http://www.fpehs.org/monthlyhappenngs.html |title = Monthly Happenings in Farmville and Prince Edward County |last = Covington |first = Edwina |date = September 2008 |website = Farmville-Prince Edward Historical Society |publisher = Southside Virginia Historical Press |access-date = 2016-08-01 |url-status = live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160624040129/http://fpehs.org/monthlyhappenngs.html |archive-date = 2016-06-24 }}</ref> |location = Farmville, [[Virginia]] |area_served = International |industry = Beverage }} Farmville Lithia Springs bottled and sold mineral water from Farmville from 1884 to 1901. The lithia springs were considered as a possible destination for tourists but the investors decided to bottle the water and ship it.<ref name="Covington"/> The water was tested and found to be superior to waters from Carlsbad, Germany. Lithia Springs Water from Farmville was shipped domestically and internationally for [[water cure (therapy)|water cure]]. The springs were just north of the [[Appomattox River]] from Farmville. Lithia Springs water contained the following minerals naturally occurring in the water.<ref>{{cite book|title=A History of Prince Edward County, Virginia, from Its Formation in 1753, to the Present|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KjgUAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA47|year=1922|publisher=Williams printing Company|pages=47β48}}</ref> *[[Lithia water]] *[[Magnesium]] *[[Chalybeate]] *[[Iodine]] *[[Alum]]
Summary:
Please note that all contributions to Niidae Wiki may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here.
You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see
Encyclopedia:Copyrights
for details).
Do not submit copyrighted work without permission!
Cancel
Editing help
(opens in new window)
Search
Search
Editing
Farmville, Virginia
(section)
Add topic