Download or read book DRINKING WATERS written by Thomas A. Chambers and published by Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press. This book was released on 2002-10-17 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nineteenth century men and women had few opportunities to socialize with those from other regions of the United States. The resorts of Virginia's western mountains and upstate New York's Saratoga Springs provided a rare meeting ground, one where the boundaries of class and region were defined, tested, solidified, broken, and repaired by the Civil War and its aftermath.