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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