Spring Hill is an

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, United States. The earliest inhabitant was the Irish sea captain James Patton, whose first home was a log cabin he built in 1741 at Spring Hill, on what is still known as the Patton Farm Road.View of the home site of James Patton's "Spring Hill", February 1952. O. Winston Link Museum and the Historical Society of Western Virginia
/ref>Johnson, Patricia Givens, ''James Patton and the Appalachian colonists,'' Verona, VA. McClure Press, 1973
/ref> On 25 October 1746, On 15 January 1754, Patton signed a contract with two Augusta County carpenters to construct a new home for him at Spring Hill: "a solidly-made a one-room log house, twenty feet square, to include...a wooden floor, high ceiling, and spacious loft."McCleskey, Nathaniel Turk, "Across the first divide: Frontiers of settlement and culture in Augusta County, Virginia, 1738-1770". Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects. Paper 1539623794, College of William and Mary, 1990.
/ref>Milo Quaife, ed. "The Preston and Virginia Papers of the Draper Collection of Manuscripts," in Wisconsin Historical Publications Calendar Series, Volume l, ''Publications of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin,'' Madison, 1915
/ref> In 1882, Spring Hill was a thriving village with several stores and two churches. It, like other communities in

, flourished into the early 1900s. Today, all that is left is a Presbyterian church, some houses, and a few abandoned storefronts. It is part of the Staunton– Waynesboro Micropolitan Statistical Area.

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