About Us
Head Spring Farm is located in Summit Point, WV. Summit Point can be found on the eastern panhandle of West Virginia and is an unincorporated community in Jefferson County, West Virginia.
Head Spring Farm ™ Mission:
Provide awareness and education for hedging against agriculture market risks while using sustainability best practices to preserve the environment and land in which we farm.
About this Site
This website is focused on agriculture in order to provide a source of information enabling farmers to plan and manage a farming business. It is our hope that is site will become a valuable tool by providing up-to-date information in addition to financial news, reports, risk assessments, and hedging strategies to offset the market risks that face farmers every day. Please look around and provide feedback on our contact page. If there is information that can be added to this site, we will be happy to evaluate and add. This site includes a Soil and Water Conservation section to provide a source of information in an effort to preserve our acreage and watersheds.
About Head Spring ™
Head Spring Farm has a lot of history. Based on earlier records, the farm was established in the early 1700's. There are various sources of information and references, but based on a Howell Brown 1852 Jefferson County map, the farm was listed as Head Spring Farm. The farm received its name since located at the head-spring of Bullskin Run located in Jefferson County, WV.
Another interesting piece of information was an event that would supposedly make Bullskin Church the first Presbyterian church in Virginia (keep in mind that West Virginia was still Virginia at this time). On Tuesday, July 20, 1736, a petition was brought into Orange County Court by Morgan Morgan and twenty six associates to state that Rev. Mr. William Williams, minister of the Gospel, had promised to supply them in the administration of his office and to ask that meeting places be established and recorded, one on Mr. Williams' land near his house, and one on land of Morgan Bryan near his house. The petition was evidently granted. Mr. Williams' home was on Opequon Creek over the ridge from the Bullskin Marsh, Mr. Bryan's 2134 acres stretched along Mill Creek over on to Tuscarora Creek, land on which he sold to Daniel Chancey in 1738. The appearance of Bullskin congregation in the Donegal Presbytery records on April 2, 1740 and often later, makes it clear that Bullskin and Tuscarora are the two preaching places for which the license was requested. The ecclesiastical name of Bullskin was Hopewell. The congregation was called Bullskin because located at the head-spring of Bullskin Run and to distinguish it from a Hopewell congregation in Pennsylvania, and also from the Hopewell Friends meeting nearby. Rightly, it was Hopewell Church in Virginia. As far as we can tell, the actual foundation of the stone church exists on the neighboring farm, Roxton Farm, originally owned by the Throckmorton family. More information is being researched to confirm this.