 bowling green is an incorporated town in caroline county, virginia, united states. the population was 1,111 at the 2010 census. the county seat of caroline county since 1803, bowling green is best known as the "cradle of american horse racing", the home of the second oldest masonic lodge, and the current location of the oldest continuously inhabited residence in virginia. ==history== the town of bowling green was earlier known as new hope. one of the earliest stage roads in the colony ran through the area from richmond to th
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