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Green Spring Farm, Fairfax County, Virginia

Ross De Witt Netherton and Nan Netherton

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A Fairfax County farm passed through generations of freeholders, turnpikes, and changing times. Ross Netherton traces Green Spring Farm from the Moss family through colonial Virginia agriculture to the mid-century. A careful local history of one enduring piece of land. Watch a single Virginia farm carry its story across two centuries.

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75 chapters

  1. 1GREEN SPRING FARM
  2. 2TABLE OF CONTENTS
  3. 3ILLUSTRATIONS
  4. 4PREFACE
  5. 5ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  6. 6INTRODUCTION
  7. 7HISTORICAL NOTES
  8. 8I. GENTLEMAN FREEHOLDERS: THE MOSS FAMILY (1770-1835)
  9. 9AGRICULTURE IN COLONIAL VIRGINIA
  10. 10THE MOSS FAMILY AS FARMERS
  11. 11GREEN SPRING FARM AND THE TURNPIKE ROAD
  12. 12THE MIDCENTURY YEARS. 1840-1880
  13. 13I. GENTLEMEN FREEHOLDERS: THE MOSS FAMILY (1770-1835)
  14. 14II. ORCHARD AND DAIRY: FOUNTAIN BEATTIE (1878-1917)
  15. 15NORTHERN VIRGINIA’S AGRICULTURE IN THE 1870’S
  16. 16MOSBY’S LIEUTENANT
  17. 17ORCHARD AND DAIRY.
  18. 18POLITICS AND PUBLIC SERVICE

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