Editing Massanutten, Virginia (section)

== History ==
The Rockingham Springs Hotel was the first resort developed at Massanutten.  In 1875, Gerald T. Hopkins, a farmer, created a health spa from the natural springs.<ref>Hopkins, E.B. Rockingham Virginia Springs.  Brochure.  Harrisonburg, VA:  Spirit of the Valley Power Job Press, 1893.</ref><ref>[https://www.dnronline.com/places/local/rockingham_county/hopkins-leaves-lasting-legacy/article_48c6ab64-78f6-11e8-852e-ff185c207038.html Hopkins Leaves Lasting Legacy] Justin McIlwee. Daily News-Record. June 26, 2018.</ref>  A three-story hotel was built in the vicinity of the family hunting cabin (Hunters Cabin), which still stands at the present-day Hopkins Park, near the intersection of Lanier Lane and Massanutten Drive.  When the popularity of health resorts declined, the hotel was closed in 1915.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Massanutten|last=Michaels|first=Christine|publisher=Acadia|year=2007|pages=32–41}}</ref>

[[Sidney Lanier]], a well-known poet, visited Rockingham Springs before taking a teaching position in literature at [[Johns Hopkins University]].<ref>{{Cite book|title=Sidney Lanier at Rockingham Springs|last=Wayland|first=J.|publisher=Ruebush-Elkins Company|year=1912}}</ref> Lanier Lane roughly follows the route to the site of Rockingham Springs.

In the late 1960s the great-grandson of G.T. Hopkins, John L. Hopkins, envisioned a ski resort at Massanutten.