Green Spring is a

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(CDP) and

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town in Hampshire County,

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, United States. As of the 2010 census, its population was 218. Green Spring is located north of Springfield on

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(West Virginia Secondary Route 1) near the

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of the

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and South Branches of the

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. 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 (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 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

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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

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{{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