[6] Among the many guests to stay at Sweet Springs since its establishment in the 1780s were George Washington, James Madison, Franklin Pierce, Martin Van Buren, Millard Fillmore, Marquis de Lafayette, and Robert E. Lee.

The Lewis family operated Sweet Springs for nearly seventy years, but by the mid-nineteenth century, the resort's business was in decline and it was sold to Allen Taylor Caperton and Oliver Beirne in 1852.

The Lewis family regained ownership of Sweet Springs in 1902 and operated the resort until 1920, after which a series of owners attempted to revive the hotel for a decade before it went bankrupt in 1930.

[7] After Sweet Springs ceased to operate as a resort, the buildings were purchased by the state of West Virginia in 1945 and rehabilitated for the Andrew S. Rowan Memorial Home for the aged.

Berkley established a non-profit organization called the Sweet Springs Resort Park Foundation and has been restoring the property and possibly reopening it as a hotel.