Minnehaha Springs is an unincorporated community located in Pocahontas County, West Virginia, United States.

Reportedly residents found Indian relics near the mineral springs in the region, which is why it was named Minnehaha, after a Native American maiden.

Most major thermal springs in the United States have some kind of record of use by local Native American tribes.

[7] In 1900 a new railroad station in Marlinton, due to the completion of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway's Greenbrier Division, placed Minnehaha Springs in a more accessible position for travelers and tourists.

Sometimes spring proprietors would work directly with railroad companies in order to establish rail stations within close distance of their resorts.

The importance these transportation networks were for business is reflected in the increased presence of spring visitors in the late 1870s and 1880s when rail travel was becoming easier and more frequent.

[3] A tennis course, golf course, pool table, cards, music, dancing, and picnic spots were included on the resort grounds.

The Minnehaha Springs hotel was the very first “facility in Pocahontas County built and operated strictly for the tourist business.

Their charter set their purpose not "of exterminating the fast vanishing wild life of West Virginia, but, on the contrary, with the primary intention of demonstrating the possibilities of propagating and increasing all species of song and insectivorous birds, game birds, animals and fish, and assisting in protecting the forests from fire, and thus restoring the attractive wild life and the picturesque forests of West Virginia to their original beauty and grandeur.

On January 9 and February 6, 1913, carloads of elk from Yellowstone National Park were transported to the Allegheny Sportsmen's Association in Minnehaha Springs.

Prior to the federal transfer, 15 elk, 14 females and 1 male, had been shipped to Minnehaha Springs from Iowa, in order to analyze their adaptation to the environment.

Both the first and second floors had large porches filled with easy chairs, swings, and hammocks, and on the roof was a small garden used as an observatory with a sweeping view of the surrounding landscape.

Behind the clubhouse was a white pine grove where guests could lounge in camp chairs, swings, and hammocks beneath the trees.

[20] Often dances continued until after twelve o’clock, and punch, ice cream, and cake was served in the dining room late into the night.

[22] Membership increased rapidly in its early years, and some weekends the club was filled to capacity, requiring visitors to go to the adjacent hotel for sleeping accommodations.