Although it was incorporated as Addison in 1892,[5] it is more frequently referred to as Webster Springs, the name of the town's post office.

[4] The town was famous in the late 19th and early 20th centuries for its numerous salt sulfur water wells.

[5] Webster Springs sits at the confluence of the Elk River and its Back Fork.

The unofficial name has gone so far that the county commission's letterhead reads "Webster Springs," rather than "Addison", which it had previously.

[7] Hall, along with a man whose first name is not known, who is only known as Mr. Skidmore, drilled the first salt sulfur well in the county, it was known as "Old Spring.

[5] The salt sulfur well helped make Webster Springs a popular summer tourist location during the 19th and early 20th Century.

Tracy, in Webster Springs; and the William Smith Well, located in Dorrtown.

[9] It was larger than The Greenbrier Hotel, built in 1913 in White Sulfur Springs, which only has 250 rooms.

[9] The hotel contained a tennis court, horse stables, garden, bowling alley, power plant, and Russian and Victorian Turkish baths,[9] where visitors could enjoy the "medicinal" qualities of its salt sulfur waters.

After it was completed, construction began on a new, much larger section of the hotel, adding more rooms, and a new exterior color, white.

[9] For many years, filled to capacity by guests and a greatly increased overflow which necessitated the building of smaller hotels in the town.

[9] Of the 89 "non-guest" rooms in the new section, 40 were for salt sulfur baths, which took up the entire first floor of one wing.

[9] On the interior, it contained stuffed bears, elks, and other wildlife of the local county in realistic poses.

[9] At the height of its popularity, the hotel played host to such guests as Senators Thomas Kearns (Utah), Henry G. Davis (West Virginia), his son-in-law, Stephen Benton Elkins (West Virginia), and Camden himself.

On the night of July 20, 1925, the hotel caught fire and was burned to the ground, being completely destroyed.

The climate in this area has mild differences between highs and lows, and there is adequate rainfall year-round.