Green Spring, West Virginia
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Green Spring is a
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(CDP) and
railroad Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport using wheeled vehicles running in railway track, tracks, which usually consist of two parallel steel railway track, rails. Rail transport is one of the two primary means of ...
town in Hampshire County,
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, United States. As of the 2020 census, its population was 250 (down from 218 at the 2010 census). Green Spring is located north of Springfield on Green Spring Road (West Virginia Secondary Route 1) near the
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of the
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and
South South is one of the cardinal directions or compass points. The direction is the opposite of north and is perpendicular to both west and east. Etymology The word ''south'' comes from Old English ''sūþ'', from earlier Proto-Germanic ''*sunþa ...
Branches of the
Potomac River The Potomac River () is in the Mid-Atlantic (United States), Mid-Atlantic region of the United States and flows from the Potomac Highlands in West Virginia to Chesapeake Bay in Maryland. It is long,U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography D ...
. Green Spring is also the location of the
South Branch Valley Railroad The South Branch Valley Railroad is a railroad in the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia. The branch line, which parallels the South Branch Potomac River, runs north from Petersburg, West Virginia, Petersburg to Green Spring, West Virginia, Gre ...
's terminus with the old
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was the oldest railroads in North America, oldest railroad in the United States and the first steam engine, steam-operated common carrier. Construction of the line began in 1828, and it operated as B&O from 1830 ...
mainline. Green Spring is the site of a one-lane low-water
toll bridge A toll bridge is a bridge where a monetary charge (or '' toll'') is required to pass over. Generally the private or public owner, builder and maintainer of the bridge uses the toll to recoup their investment, in much the same way as a toll road ...
that connects Green Spring Road (West Virginia Secondary Route 1) to Maryland Route 51 in Oldtown, Allegany County,
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. This bridge is one of only 17 privately owned toll bridges in the United States. The toll for the bridge is currently US$1.50.


History

The town of Green Spring came into importance in 1819 when the
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provided for a "public warehouse for the receipt of
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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
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from Hampshire County in 1869 and
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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.


Parks and recreation

* Green Spring Recreational Park, Green Spring Road (CR 1) '"House of the Setting Sun and Haunted Barn"' , 1313 Screamin' Hollow Lane, Buck Way


Churches

* Green Spring Assembly of God, Norton Street * Otterbein United Methodist Church, Norton Street


References


External links

{{authority control Baltimore and Ohio Railroad South Branch Valley Railroad Census-designated places in Hampshire County, West Virginia Census-designated places in West Virginia Populated places on the North Branch Potomac River