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CALL NUMBER: VMHB 2005 113.1 Price
OBJECT TYPE: Article
TITLE: Constructing to Command: Rivalries Between Green Spring and the Governor’s Palace, 1677-1722
DESCRIPTION: Green Spring was the home of Governor Sir William Berkeley (1605-1677), who began construction 3 miles from Jamestown and finished it in 1674. During Bacon’s Rebellion in 1677 it was damaged. This article, however, looks at Green Spring in the period after Berkeley, and seeks to understand how the later owners of the house used it in their ambitions for command over Virginia’s affairs. At this time, the Governor conducted much of the Colony’s business from his personal manse. This was in competition with the Royal Governors mansion in Williamsburg, the symbol of Royal Authority as opposed to its personal occupant at any given time.
AUTHOR: Price, Virginia B.
EDITION: Vol. 113, No. 1, p. 2-45
SERIES: Virginia Magazine of History and Biography
PUBLICATION DATE: 2005
PUBLISHER: Virginia Historical Society
PLACE OF PUBLICATION: Richmond, VA
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