"The Spout Spring is a winning and unique combination of time, place, fact and imagination."
Helen Haddad, author of Picture of Guilt

Ever wonder how your ancestors might have lived their daily lives and how they reacted to the news of the day?

The writer did and the result is...

The Spout Spring

A story of the Blue Ridge Mountains and Peter and his family who lived there—and a special lady whose spirit is in the spring and who talks only to Peter.

The Spout Spring
by Mark W. Royston
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The Spout Spring is a fictional story of Eastern Frederick County, Virginia which later became Clarke County, named for the great Indian fighter, George Rogers Clark. Peter Royston becomes the overseer of John Holker’s Springsbury Plantation which abuts the Shenandoah River just south of a small community called Battletown which was on its way to becoming the county seat of Clarke County. Follow the lives of Peter and his bride Ann Anderson Royston as they later move into the Blue Ridge Mountains near Wildcat Hollow.

   

Mark Royston was born and raised in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. He graduated from the United States Naval Academy and ran a small industrial business in California. He began writing upon his retirement.

 

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 The Spout Spring
& (As a Bonus) Too Poor to Paint Too Proud to Whitewash, The Early Years

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ISBN 0-595-30187-8
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