Green Spring Mill Records

1549 WFCHS

Inventory created by Archives Staff 08/20. Last revised 10/20.

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EXTENT: 1 volume

DATE: 1816-1818

SCOPE AND CONTENT: This collection contains an account book from Green Spring Mill in Frederick County, Va., covering July 1816 to June 1818. The mill operator made daily entries of his business.  

BIOGRAPHICAL/HISTORICAL: The Green Spring Mill was built about 1.5 miles west of White Hall in the year 1801.  In 1816, James Tanquary Jr. ran the mill.  The building was later (around 1940) sold to C.B. Dawson, who opened a store at the location.  

BIBLIOGRAPHY: Hutton, James V. Jr., In and Around the Loop (Northern Frederick County, Virginia).  Athens, Georgia: Iberian Publishing Company, 1998.                                                                                 

CITE AS: Green Spring Mill Records, 1549 WFCHS, Stewart Bell Jr. Archives, Handley Regional Library, Winchester, VA, USA.

ACQUISITION INFORMATION: Acquired as a gift.

ORGANIZATION:

BOX 1

Green Spring Mill Account Book, 1 volume, unnumbered pages, manuscript