Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-06-09
4 HERE is an old road which leads
south from the hamlet Of
Springhifk in Virginia, seven

Cd HERE is an old road which leads
south from the hamlet Of
Springhiik in Virginia, seven
miles west from Chain bridge.
Thousands and perhaps hundreds Of
thousands OF travellers passing between
Washington and Great Falls have seen
the place and it may be that they have
read the sign 'Springhilp' on the wait
ing room. Not many persons live at
Springhill, but those who have their
habitations there believe that 1t Is the
fatrest spot on earth. Persons who do
not live at Springhin may consider this
belief a manifestation Of provincialsm
or local pride or an exuberaace of
neighborhood enthusiasm, but then
nearly everybody will admit that it is
wen that one should have high and loyal
faith in ones own community.
Those persons who reject the idea that
Springhill is the Eden Of Fairfax county
viii no doubt insist that the place they
call home is the fairest spot on earth
There are. of course, in this matter as
in all others, exceptions to be- noted.
In every community is some one who Is
dissatisfied with that particular place.
The crouch always knows Of some place
THAT iS HVeHers more progressive or
more sociable, and it is usually a place
where he lived in other times or in ''the
good old days" Now and then the fair
est spot on earth is some far-on place
which the Crouch has never seen. but
which he has read about and of which
he has absorbed giided or rosy notions
If the people Of Springhill believe that
their village is more beautiful, moro
honeGke, more moral more enlightened
and more convenient to Washington
the most beautiful and finest city In the
, worh-than Springfield. Springvale.
spring. pump or artesian well, It h their
particular business. The Rambler Is
perfectly resigned to the well established
fact that each county in Maryland and
Virginia. AZ well as in an the other
states, produces the loveliest women,
in the United States, and also that each
county grows the best wheat, corn and
oats and biggest pumpkins
go 80 h
As matter Of fact Springhin 10 lit
tis place Of great charm The houses
there are az cozy and comfortable a.
anywhere else and the people who dwell
in than arr az good. and no worse, than
peopse elsewhere. They are jut as hos
Gn1AAt.S - sAgG p~SR1S " any VSkstSA S<skA~-
ment in Fairfax or Princewilnam. Mont
Eunefy. Charles or Prince Georges
county, and that means that they are
% haspitahle az people anywhere In the
long and broad United States The
hames Of Spri1ehfH are set In green
gardens that are just as green as gar
'dens anywhere and the roses that bloom
sthe9e are as pink and red, al white and
,As yellow a. roses that give their beauty
and sweet scent to any other hasnaet-
The hens caciCie as persistentfy and the
srooafers crow AZ exulfanfly as elsewhere
and the children are as good, a. pretty
and ~ Interesting as any children who
play with dolls, top. hoop or marbles in
any other little village.
Through Springhill passes a road that
wanders across the country from north
to south. It begins on the north, near
Carper school, on the Georgetown and
springhill it branches The left fork
leads southeast and at Jones' Corners
enters the road which runs westward
from Lewinsville TO the Alexandria and
Leesburg pike, which 1t strikes about
half q mile west Of Ash Grove. which Is
between three and four miles west of
LewiRsville.
The right-hand fork Of the springhi1I
road also enters the road from Lewins-
vile to the Alexandra and Leeshurg
PIKE, HSaCntuB II at Ouf1CK SCnO0l, a
mile west Of Jones' Corners. At Odrick
School one may turn to the left and 60
east to Lewinsville and southeast to
Falls Church or turn to the right and
go west passing Pleasant Grove Church
and reaching the Alexandria and Lees
burg pike about half a mile west of that
place. Also at Odrick School a road that
Is less travelled than those described
continues on in south course and con-
meets with the Alexandra and Leesburg
pike about a mile northwest Of Tyson's
crossroads and little less than that
distance southeast Of Ash Grove. This
is the region Of CAN'T Hin, Freedom
Hill and Woiftrap run. These are old
roads and were probably important
thoroughfares before Pennsylvania ave-
nue., F street and other proud houlevards
wer1 set down on map
There are a network Of public roads
and maze Of private ways through this
region. for here settlers began to hew
plantations out Of the wilderness in the
middle of the seventeenth century and
at the outbreak Of the American revoln-
tion 1t had its quota Of old families and
was dotted with ancestral homes. Per-
haps the ghost Of one Of those families
that were several generations old in this
neiShborhood in TITS smiles or grins
at some OF those families which today
class themselves as ancient. Perhaps a
ghost in knee breeches, with furnished
silver buckles on his shoes. il now
standing behind the Rambler and saying
something like this: MY ancestral home
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