Green Spring Farm, by Ross and Nan Netherton, a Project Gutenberg eBook
by Ross De Witt Netherton
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About this eBook
- Author
- Netherton, Nan
- Title
- Green Spring Farm, Fairfax County, Virginia
- Credits
- Produced by Katherine Ward, Mark C. Orton and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- F206: United States local history: The South. South Atlantic States
- Subject
- Green Spring Farm (Va.)
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 33272
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33272
- Release Date
- July 27, 2010
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.GREEN SPRING FARM
- 2.TABLE OF CONTENTS
- 3.ILLUSTRATIONS
- 4.PREFACE
- 5.ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- 6.INTRODUCTION
- 7.HISTORICAL NOTES — I. GENTLEMAN FREEHOLDERS: THE MOSS FAMILY (1770-1835) — AGRICULTURE IN COLONIAL VIRGINIA — THE MOSS FAMILY AS FARMERS — GREEN SPRING FARM AND THE TURNPIKE ROAD — THE MIDCENTURY YEARS. 1840-1880 — I. GENTLEMEN FREEHOLDERS: THE MOSS FAMILY (1770-1835) — II. ORCHARD AND DAIRY: FOUNTAIN BEATTIE (1878-1917) — NORTHERN VIRGINIA’S AGRICULTURE IN THE 1870’S — MOSBY’S LIEUTENANT — ORCHARD AND DAIRY. — POLITICS AND PUBLIC SERVICE — GREEN SPRING FARM AND ANNANDALE — II. ORCHARD AND DAIRY: FOUNTAIN BEATTIE (1878-1917) — III. THE END OF THE FARMING ERA: MICHAEL STRAIGHT (1942-1969) — III. THE END OF THE FARMING ERA: MICHAEL STRAIGHT (1942-1969)
- 8.ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY AND DESCRIPTION: THE MANSION HOUSE — GENERAL SETTING — HOUSE SITE — GENERAL ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN AND HISTORY — TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION—EXTERIOR. — TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION—INTERIOR. — ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY AND DESCRIPTION: THE MANSION HOUSE
- 9.ASSOCIATED BUILDINGS — I. THE TOBEY HOUSE — HISTORY — GENERAL SETTING AND SITE OF THE HOUSE — ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN — EXTERIOR FEATURES — ENCLOSURES — LANDSCAPING — INTERIOR FEATURES — II. THE BARN — III. THE LOG CABIN — IV. THE SPRING HOUSE — HISTORY — EXTERIOR — ASSOCIATED BUILDINGS — I. THE TOBEY HOUSE — III. THE LOG CABIN — IV. THE SPRING HOUSE
- 10.APPENDIX A — COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA County of Fairfax HISTORIC LANDMARKS SURVEY
- 11.APPENDIX B — GREEN SPRING FARM HISTORY OF OWNERSHIP
- 12.APPENDIX C — WILL OF JOHN MOSS, 1809
- 13.APPENDIX D — SALES ACCOUNT OF THE PERSONAL ESTATE OF WILLIAM MOSS—1835 — FURNITURE — HOUSEHOLD FURNISHINGS — PICTURES, BOOKS AND PAPERS — NEGROES — FARM PRODUCE — ANIMALS — TOOLS, FARM EQUIPMENT AND IMPLEMENTS OF HUSBANDRY
- 14.APPENDIX E
- 15.Appendix F — Fairfax County (Va.) Will Book T-1, page 223:
- 16.APPENDIX G — A Visit from Mr. Polevoy — Editors’ Note:
- 17.LIST OF SOURCE MATERIALS — BOOKS — ARTICLES — OFFICIAL GOVERNMENT RECORDS AND REPORTS — NEWSPAPER — MANUSCRIPTS — MISCELLANEOUS
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