Cool Spring Farm, also known as Rockdale Spring Farm and Torytown, was a wilderness estate settled by Colonel Morgan Morgan, long celebrated as the first permanent European settler in what became West Virginia, who was granted 1,000 acres there in 1735 though he is believed to have first settled the land in 1731. His seventh son, Zackquill Morgan, built the house at Cool Spring Farm in 1761 before selling it in 1765 and moving west to found Morgantown in 1781. The property changed hands several times before John McKown Jr. purchased it in 1827, and his son Edmund renamed it Rockdale Spring Farm; in 1994 the original house built by Zackquill Morgan was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Building TypeSourced to the subject's own account LocationSourced to the subject's own accountWest Virginia, United States 3 Completed Year Classification
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1. Cool Spring Farm (Gerrardstown, West Virginia) (Wikipedia)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cool_Spring_Farm_(Gerrardstown,_West_Virginia), lead definition
Cool Spring Farm, also known as Rockdale Spring Farm and Torytown, was a wilderness estate settled by Colonel Morgan Morgan (1688-1766), long celebrated as the first permanent European settler in what would become West Virginia.
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Cool Spring Farm, also known as Rockdale Spring Farm and Torytown, was a wilderness estate settled by Colonel Morgan Morgan, long celebrated as the first permanent European settler in what became West Virginia, who was granted 1,000 acres there in 1735 though he is believed to have first settled the land in 1731. His seventh son, Zackquill Morgan, built the house at Cool Spring Farm in 1761 before selling it in 1765 and moving west to found Morgantown in 1781. The property changed hands several times before John McKown Jr. purchased it in 1827, and his son Edmund renamed it Rockdale Spring Farm; in 1994 the original house built by Zackquill Morgan was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Wikipedia infobox completion_date/completed/built field (1761)
completion_date/completed = 1761
In Style: Federal Architecture, Infobox, architecture
architecture: Federal
View the Source2. Cool Spring Farm (Gerrardstown, West Virginia) (Wikidata)
Wikimedia FoundationWikidata instance-of (P31) statement (Plantation)Quote, Wikidata instance-of (P31) statement (Plantation)
Wikidata item Q5167348, instance of (P31): plantation
3. Cool Spring Farm (Gerrardstown, West Virginia) (Wikidata)
Wikimedia FoundationWikidata located-in-admin-entity (P131) / country (P17) statement: West Virginia, United StatesQuote, Wikidata located-in-admin-entity (P131) / country (P17) statement: West Virginia, United States
Wikidata item Q5167348, property P131/P17 (location): West Virginia, United States
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