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Green Spring Farm, Fairfax County, Virginia
Ross De Witt Netherton and Nan Netherton
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
- 1GREEN SPRING FARM
- 2TABLE OF CONTENTS
- 3ILLUSTRATIONS
- 4PREFACE
- 5ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- 6INTRODUCTION
- 7HISTORICAL NOTES
- 8I. GENTLEMAN FREEHOLDERS: THE MOSS FAMILY (1770-1835)
- 9AGRICULTURE IN COLONIAL VIRGINIA
- 10THE MOSS FAMILY AS FARMERS
- 11GREEN SPRING FARM AND THE TURNPIKE ROAD
- 12THE MIDCENTURY YEARS. 1840-1880
- 13I. GENTLEMEN FREEHOLDERS: THE MOSS FAMILY (1770-1835)
- 14II. ORCHARD AND DAIRY: FOUNTAIN BEATTIE (1878-1917)
- 15NORTHERN VIRGINIA’S AGRICULTURE IN THE 1870’S
- 16MOSBY’S LIEUTENANT
- 17ORCHARD AND DAIRY.
- 18POLITICS AND PUBLIC SERVICE
+ 57 more. The full contents open with the book.
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