Cold Spring (Shepherdstown, West Virginia)

Cold Spring is a house near Shepherdstown, West Virginia, childhood home to two United States Representatives. The house was built by Edward Lucas III and his son, Robert in 1793. It is a two-story house of coursed ashlar stone masonry.

Cold Spring
Nearest cityShepherdstown, West Virginia
Coordinates39°23′48″N 77°49′5″W
Built1793
NRHP reference No.73001917
Added to NRHPAugust 14, 1973[1]

Several of Robert and Sarah Rion Lucas' children were notable. Edward Lucas V served as a lieutenant in the War of 1812, then was elected to the Virginia House of Delegates in 1819, 130 and 1831. From 1833 to 1837 he was a US Congressman. Following his political career he was the superintendent of the Harpers Ferry Armory.

William Lucas became a lawyer. In 1838 he was elected to the Virginia House of Delegates, and in 1839 he was elected to Congress. In 1836 he built Rion Hall near Halltown, West Virginia.

A third brother, Robert, inherited Cold Spring, leaving it to his nephew, Daniel Bedinger Lucas in 1880.[2]

References
  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
  2. Ted McGee (March 9, 1973). "National Register of Historic Places Nomination: Cold Spring" (PDF). National Park Service. Archived from the original (pdf) on February 3, 2013. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)


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