Cool Spring Farm — also known as Rockdale Spring Farm and Torytown — was a wilderness estate settled by Colonel Morgan Morgan (1688-1766), long celebrated as the first permanent European settler in what would become West Virginia.

After changing hands several times, the property was purchased by John McKown, Jr. in 1827.

The sons of John McKown owned considerable lands in the area of Gerrardstown during the late 19th century.

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