Green Spring, West Virginia

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Green Spring is an unincorporated railroad hamlet in Hampshire County, West Virginia. Green Spring is located north of Springfield on Green Spring Road (County Route 1) near the confluence of the North and South Branches of the Potomac River. Green Spring is also the location of the South Branch Valley Railroad's terminus with the old Baltimore & Ohio Railroad mainline. Green Spring is the site of a one-lane low water toll bridge that connects Green Spring Road (CR 1) to MD 51 in Oldtown, Allegany County, Maryland. According to the 2000 census, the Green Spring community has a population of 581 [link].

Contents

1 History
2 Parks & recreation
3 Churches
4 External links

History

The town of Green Spring came into importance in 1819 when the Virginia General Assembly provided for a "public warehouse for the receipt of tobacco be established at Romney warehouse and at Cresap's warehouse at the confluence of the North and South Branches of the Potomac in Hampshire County."

John Jeremiah Jacob (1829-1893) was born in Green Spring December 9, 1829. Jacob was a member of the West Virginia House of Delegates from Hampshire County in 1869 and Governor of West Virginia from 1871 to 1877. Jacob died in Wheeling on November 24, 1893 and is interred at Indian Mound Cemetery in Romney.

The Green Spring Train Station (1882-1885) remains one of the town's most important historic sites and was featured on the Hampshire County Arts Council's 1998 Hampshire County Christmas Bulb.

Parks & recreation

Green Spring Recreational Park, Green Spring Road (CR 1)

Churches

Forest Glen United Methodist Church, Green Spring Road (CR 1) at Millen
Green Spring Assembly of God, Norton & Fourth Streets

External links

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