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West Warm Springs is an unincorporated community in Bath County, Virginia, in the United States.

In 2021, the Virginia Department of Historic Resources dedicated a commemorative plaque recognizing West Warm Springs as a significant place in the history of African Americans in the Commonwealth of Virginia. According to the official press release from the commemoration ceremony, African Americans recently freed from slavery purchased parcels of land west of Warm Springs and founded the community in the antebellum period of the American Civil War. Residents gained employment at the Warm Springs Pools or the Homestead Resort, or they fashioned careers as tradespeople and entrepreneurs. West Warm Springs is an important example of an Appalachian freedmen's town.

Community members of West Warm Springs gradually erected spaces for worship, education, and community life. Of note, the John Wesley Methodist Episcopal Church and Cemetery, founded in 1873, was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.

References

1. "Three State Historical Markers to be Dedicated in Bath County's Warm Springs & West Warm Springs". www.dhr.virginia.gov. Retrieved September 26, 2022.
2. WILSON, KATHLEEN CURTIS (2021). "From Enslavement to Entrepreneurship in Appalachian Virginia". The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography. 129 (2): 156–192. ISSN 0042-6636.
3. "National Register of Historic Places Listings". Weekly List of Actions Taken on Properties: 12/23/13 through 12/27/13. National Park Service. January 3, 2014.

• U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: West Warm Springs, Virginia

v t e Municipalities and communities of Bath County, Virginia, United States
County seat: Warm Springs
CDPs	Hot Springs Millboro Warm Springs
Unincorporated communities	Armstrong Ashwood Bacova Bacova Junction Bolar‡ Burnsville Callison Carloover Chimney Run Copeland Crane Crowdertown Fort Lewis Green Valley Greenwood Healing Springs Hotchkiss McClung Millboro Springs Mitchelltown Mooretown Mountain Grove Shiloh Sunrise Thomastown Tinkertown West Warm Springs Williamsville Yost
Footnotes	‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties
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