Green Spring Farm, Fairfax County, Virginia

Green Spring Farm, Fairfax County, Virginia
Author: Ross De Witt Netherton
Publisher: DigiCat
Total Pages: 89
Release: 2022-05-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

This work is an in-depth historical study of Green Spring Farm in Fairfax County, Virginia. It depicts the different farmer-families throughout the years the farm was active, and their practices.

History Lover's Guide to Alexandria and South Fairfax County, A

History Lover's Guide to Alexandria and South Fairfax County, A
Author: Laura A. Macaluso
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2022-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 1467148679

History is nurtured and treasured in the City of Alexandria and in neighboring South Fairfax County. A History Lover's Guide to Alexandria & South Fairfax County focuses on this special area along the Potomac River. Travel through history from Old Town to Mason's Neck and witness the practice of preservation as it continues to evolve today. Alexandria cares for the places essential to understanding our shared past, from cobblestone streets to the always active waterfront. Visit the numerous museums and historic houses, many of which are iconic in American history, in Old Town. Learn the stories of Alexandria's African American community, from slavery to freedom. Discover neighborhoods like Del Ray and Seminary Hill. South of the city, travel the George Washington Memorial Parkway and walk in the footsteps of Washington himself. Historian and preservationist Laura Macaluso draws connections between city and county, and between past and present.

On Green Spring Farm

On Green Spring Farm
Author: Michael Whitney Straight
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2004
Genre: Fairfax County (Va.)
ISBN: 9780934160056

A personal memoir of Michael Straight's family life at Green Spring Farm from 1942-1966

The Quarters and the Fields

The Quarters and the Fields
Author: Damian Alan Pargas
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Total Pages: 437
Release: 2010-11-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 0813059070

The Quarters and the Fields offers a unique approach to the examination of slavery. Rather than focusing on slave work and family life on cotton plantations, Damian Pargas compares the practice of slavery among the other major agricultural cultures in the nineteenth-century South: tobacco, mixed grain, rice, and sugar cane. He reveals how the demands of different types of masters and crops influenced work patterns and habits, which in turn shaped slaves' family life. By presenting a broader view of the complex forces that shaped enslaved people's family lives, not only from outside but also from within, this book takes an inclusive approach to the slave agency debate. A comparative study that examines the importance of time and place for slave families, The Quarters and the Fields provides a means for understanding them as they truly were: dynamic social units that were formed and existed under different circumstances across time and space.

Rectors Remembered: The Descendants of John Jacob Rector Volume 1

Rectors Remembered: The Descendants of John Jacob Rector Volume 1
Author: Laura Wayland-Smith Hatch
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 713
Release: 2014-10-22
Genre: History
ISBN: 1312619406

Volume 1 of 8, TOC and pages 1-504. A genealogical compilation of the descendants of John Jacob Rector and his wife, Anna Elizabeth Fischbach. Married in 1711 in Trupbach, Germany, the couple immigrated to the Germanna Colony in Virginia in 1714. Eight volumes document the lives of over 45,000 individuals.