Green Spring Plantation

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Floor plan of the facility, created after 1933
Ruins of the prison

The Green Spring Plantation was a plantation in James City County , Virginia , about eight kilometers west of Williamsburg and about five kilometers from Jamestown .

It was created in the 17th century by Sir William Berkeley (1605–1677), a popular governor of colonial Virginia, and his second wife, Frances Stephens Berkeley (nee Culpeper). Berkeley had an impressive mansion built in 1645 on what was initially about 8.1 square kilometers (2000 acres ) in size. In the vicinity of the manor Berkeley laid out English gardens, which he enclosed with winding brick walls; the walls, together with English models, may have inspired Thomas Jefferson a good 150 years later to create the winding brick walls that he built in the gardens of the University of Virginia .

The plantation, which in its heyday reached an area of ​​around 28.3 square kilometers (7000 acres ), was used to grow wine, flax , fruits, rice , mulberry trees for sericulture , an orchard with 1,500 trees and oranges in a greenhouse . Wood was felled and cattle and race horses were bred. The plantation also housed a windmill and a pottery with a kiln . Products have been shipped by sea to markets in North America, the West Indies , Great Britain and the Netherlands. Numerous historical events took place in the area of ​​the plantation , including Bacon's Rebellion and several battles of the American Revolutionary War and the Civil War . In 1862 troops of the Northern States ( Union Army ) destroyed the manor house ( Ludwell-Lee manor house ) of the plantation.

A law of the US Congress on June 5, 1936 allowed the purchase of the central area, 0.79 square kilometers (196 acres ) of the former plantation area; In 1966 it was acquired by the National Park Service and added to the Colonial National Historical Park , a national historical park- type memorial that also includes Colonial Williamsburg and the remains of Jamestown .

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  1. ↑ a b Dan Lovelace: Excavating and Interpreting Green Spring  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , on Uncommon Sense on the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture website (accessed May 13, 2007)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / oieahc.wm.edu  
  2. ↑ Pendleton Hogan (1987). The Lawn. A Guide to Jefferson's University. Charlottesville, Virginia: University Press of Virginia. (P. 71); Grizzard Jr., Frank E., and Smith, D. Boyd. Green Spring , on the Jamestown Colony website ( memento of the original from September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed May 13, 2007) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.jamestown.abc-clio.com
  3. ↑ About us , on the Friends of Green Spring website ( Memento of the original from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed May 13, 2007) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.historicgreenspring.org
  4. ↑ Grizzard Jr., Frank E., and Smith, D. Boyd. Green Spring , on the Jamestown Colony website ( memento of the original from September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed May 13, 2007)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.jamestown.abc-clio.com
  5. ^ Colonial National Historical Park. Green Spring Plantation Site. Virginia , in the Survey of Historic Sites and Buildings on the National Park Service website (accessed May 13, 2007)

literature

  • Warren M. Billings: Imagining Green Spring House . In: Virginia Cavalcade , Volume 44, 1994.
  • Louis R. Caywood: Green Spring Plantation . In: Virginia Magazine of History and Biography , Volume 65, 1957.
  • Jesse Dimmick: Green Spring . In: The William and Mary Quarterly , Volume 2, Volume 9, 1929.
  • J. Paul Hudson: Plantation, Refuge, Prison, Statehouse . In: This Was Green Spring. Jamestown, VA: Jamestown Foundation, 1970.

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Coordinates: 37 ° 15 ′ 27 "  N , 76 ° 48 ′ 11"  W.