As the message below indicates that Cool Spring existed into the 1800s, you can try looking for it in the Fairfax Co. Land Tax Records for, using the names of the landowners given.  After 1814, the land tax books indicated the location of the land in miles and direction from the Courthouse (ie. 6 mi SSW), and sometimes gave the name of the property as well.  Also, a major change in amount of tax charged can indicate a building added or lost.  These records are on microfilm at the Library of Virginia, and may be available on interlibrary loan.

Anne in Brooklyn 

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>From: "Levy, Suzanne S." <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Mar 2, 2007 11:34 AM
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>Subject: [VA-ROOTS] Cool Spring in Fairfax County
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>I find two references to Cool Spring in written works on Fairfax County.
> 
>Jean Geddes in "Fairfax County Historical Highlights from 1607" (1967)
>writes of Ravensworth, Ossian Hall and Oak Hill as follows:
> 
>"Besides these great homes there was still another called Cool Spring,
>of which only the old foundation and a spring remain today. Because it
>too was located on the Ravensworth Plantaion lands, Cool Spring
>undoubtedly played an important part in the history and development of
>Fairfax County, also. But little information is available today
>regarding its past."
> 
>Charles W. Stetson in "Washington and his Neighbors" writes of
>Ravensworth in 1956:
> 
>"Mr. Egbert Watt, who has spent most of his life in the neighborhood,
>recalls that Miss "Dolly" Fitzhugh, daughter of William Fitzhugh of Cool
>Spring, used to visit his family at Oak Hill, and she told him that it
>was built about 1780 for an eighteen year old Fitzhugh Bride. He did not
>remember her name. That is probably the approximate date of Oak Hill and
>Ossian. Cool Spring, another old Fitzhugh house built some distance west
>of Oak Hill, is no longer standing".
> 
>We are currently involved in a project studying some of these lands and
>I would be happy to put you in touch with that researcher next week if
>you contact me directly.
> 
>Suzanne S. Levy, Virginia Room Librarian
>Fairfax City Regional Library
>3915 Chain Bridge Road
>Fairfax VA 22030
>703-293-6383
>http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/library/branches/vr/
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