Green Springs National Historic Landmark District

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Green Springs National Historic Landmark District may be a national historic district in Louisa County, Virginia noted for its concentration of fine rural manor homes associate degreed connected buildings in an intact agricultural landscape. The district includes fourteen,000 acres (5,700 ha) of fertile land, contrastive with the a lot of typical poor soil and scrub pinelands encompassing it.
The district is found one.5 miles (2 km) north of interstate sixty four from exit No. 136, “Zion Crossroads.” The district is roughly finite by U.S. Route fifteen and Virginia Routes twenty two and 613. The realm is known as for a spring noted by President Jefferson as possessing “some healthful virtue.” The district options a mix of forested and farmed lands. Its distinctive earth science feature is that the presence of an important clay soil that retains plant nutrients and wet, making associate degree open landscape appropriate for farming. The realm is noted for its park-like views, significantly from U.S. Route 15.
The district was preserved following tries by the state of Virginia to make a jail there, and when a strip mine was planned within the space to mine clay for cat litter. The strip mine happened anyway (Google Earth maps of the realm clearly show the destruction caused by the mine) however not on the size that was meant originally and an excellent several vital homes and lands still be preserved and excluded from the event that’s remodeling a number of the realm round the district.

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