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== Notable historic resorts == * [[Baiae]], Italy, a famous historic resort of the ancient world that was popular over 2000 years ago. * [[Capri]], an island near [[Naples]], [[Italy]], has attracted visitors since Roman times. * [[Monte Ne]], near [[Rogers, Arkansas]], a famous historic resort which was active in the early 20th century. At its peak, more than 10,000 people a year visited its hotels. Two of its hotels, Missouri Row and Oklahoma Row, were the largest log buildings in the world. Monte Ne closed in the 1930s and was ultimately submerged under [[Beaver Lake (Arkansas)|Beaver Lake]] in the 1960s. * Tawawa House, also known as Tawawa Springs or Xenia Springs, inspired [[Dolen Perkins-Valdez]] to write her [[debut novel]], ''Wench'' (2010),<ref>{{cite book|title=Wench|author=Perkins-Vadez, Dolen|publisher=Amistad|date=2010|asin=B004NE8RZ4}}</ref> when she read about it in an autobiography of [[W. E. B. Du Bois|W.E.B. Du Bois]]. The book mentioned in passing that the land for [[Wilberforce University]] had once been used for a privately owned resort called Tawawa House, where white slave owners would bring the black slaves that they kept as mistresses.<ref>{{cite news|last1=O'Neal Parker|first1=Lonnae|title=A tender spot in master-slave relations|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/21/AR2011012102960.html|access-date=April 15, 2015|newspaper=Washington Post}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=14058|website=The Historical Marker Database|title= Old Wilberforce University Campus at Tawawa Springs |access-date=May 28, 2015}}</ref>
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