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Thompson's Bromide
Arsenic Springs

Crumpler, NC (Ashe County)
"Nine miles from Jefferson is a mineral spring, hotel and outbuildings, situated 3,000 feet above sea level, that is almost a specific for eczema, all forms of skin troubles and all kidney and bladder affections. It can be reached from Troutdale, Va., (leaving Norfolk & Westeern train at Marion, Va, for Troutdale) or from Wilkesboro, N.C., on Southern Railway, from which it is distant forty miles. It opens May 15. H.M. Wiley is the proprietor and the post office is Crumpler, Ashe County, N.C."(1914, Arthur, p. 501)