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By Shawnie Kelley|2023-01-25T16:48:52-05:00January 24th, 2023|Articles, Blog|

Old Course at The Omni Homestead Resort I love a good history lesson! While researching the two golf courses at The Homestead- The Old Course (1892) and The Cascades (1924) - I learned the Old Course has the nation's oldest first tee in continuous use. It was a little geek-out golf moment to think we [...]

The Homestead: America’s First Resort

By Shawnie Kelley|2023-01-24T23:25:06-05:00January 24th, 2023|Articles, Blog|

As a longtime patron of Omni Hotels, the Homestead Resort in Hot Springs, Virginia, has been on my to-go list since they acquired the property in 2013. I appreciate the hotel group's custodianship of beautiful resorts often on the National Trust for Historic Preservation and recognized by the Historic Hotels of America, both of which [...]