In the seventeenth century, small numbers of buffalo also roamed in Virginia and a few may have been in this region as well. Indian spear points that may be as much as 10,000 years old have been found at Poplar Springs. The Manahoacs merged with other Siouan people, the Monacans whose descendants still live in Amherst County, Virginia today. Some of those tribes may have been Siouan people known as the Manahoacs who were identified in the Rappahannock river drainage area by Captain John Smith in 1608. Poplar Springs, like its neighboring farms The Grove and Eastern View, is on land once used by American Indian tribes. The first installation of nearly 1000 Traminette vines took place on Saturday, May 27, 2017. Designed to resemble 16th– and 17th-century European architecture, its primary construction utilized fieldstone located on the property, which is believed to have originated from the fireplaces of Civil War Union camps. Prominent lawyer Robert Randolph Hicks and his bride, Rose Beatrice Sutton, are credited with building what is now the Manor House. However, it was not until the late 1920s that Poplar Springs as we see it today was constructed. The origins of Poplar Springs predate the era of the American Revolution.
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