Stories

Green Springs Described

*Unique Soils and Hydrology:

Green Springs Soils Set the Standard for Productive Land Elsewhere, 1833

Green Springs Weathers a Drought, 1838

A Correspondent Theorizes about Bountiful Soils in Green Springs, 1843

*Famous Animals:

Green Springs Included on a Distinguished Bull's Breeding-Itinerary, 1831

Green Springs Included on a Distinguished Stallion's Breeding-Itinerary, 1833


Green Springs Experienced

*The American Revolution:

Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton Leads Raiding British Cavalry Through Louisa County, 1781

Eliza Ambler Describes Fleeing from Louisa Court House to Green Springs and Back Again, 1781

*Slavery:

Free and Enslaved Slave-Traders Visit Green Springs, c. 1820's

Green Springs Slaveholders Join a Mobilization Against Abolitionists and Warn of Civil War, 1836

An Advertisement Reveals an Enslaved Woman’s Family Connection, 1838


Green Springs Imagined

A Richmonder Seeks to Improve His Health, 1798

An Abolitionist Finds Revolutionary-War Precedent for a March by Union Troops, 1862

A 19th-Century Virginia Novelist and Public Servant Imagines 18th-Century Life at the Green Springs Mineral Springs, c. 1880