A Landmark of American History Falls on Hard Times, Then Is Rescued by a Texas Developer and Bipartisan Compromise
The Bedford Springs Hotel has sat in the south-central Pennsylvania valley since the early frontier days, and by 1805 she started to become America’s first grand resort.

BEDFORD, Pennsylvania — For nearly two decades, every time the alarm rang out from Bedford Fire Department Number 1, people in town would say a little prayer that the call wasn’t for the old Bedford Springs Hotel — a primarily wooden structure built when President Jefferson was in office that was sitting abandoned just a mile outside town.
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