Cool Spring

Was known as Cool Spring in 1826. Hillie Holmes' Store was the last surviving relic as Cool Spring post office was moved into what became the town of Creswell in 1874.

Marker is on Cherry Road 0.2 miles west of Middle ...

Old Cool Springs Cemetery

1840 - 1873

Site of Cool Springs Baptist Church, now First Baptist Church, organized in John Bostick Home, 1848. First log meeting house 1855-1867. First church and cemetery in settlement.

Marker is on Vance St.

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Battle of Cool Spring

Battle of

Cool Spring

July 18, 1864

Early & Crook

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Marker is on Castleman Road (County Route 603), on the right when traveling north.

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Cool Spring Park

With the completion of Cool Spring Reservoir in 1877, an adjoining parcel of unused land was reserved for park purposes. Formally designated as Cool Spring Park, the grounds were managed by the Wilmington Water Department until 1967, when the City ...

Battle of Cool Spring

Sharp Action at the Shenandoah River

To draw Union troops from Petersburg to Washington, Confederate Gen. Jubal A. Early attacked the capital’s defenses on July 11, 1864. He then withdrew to the Shenandoah Valley, where he had left Gen. John C. ...

Coole Springs of Saint Marie’s

Charlotte Hall, Maryland

Waters of exceptional purity and reputed healing quality led to the establishment near here of one of the earliest hospitals in the North American Colonies, authorized by the General Assembly, October 20, 1698.

Marker is on Charlotte Hall Road ...