Palmer Springs, Virginia
Palmer Springs, Virginia appears in A Long Time Ago: A History of the Atkins-Paynter and Allied Families as part of the local world surrounding the later Mecklenburg branch of the family.
It is linked especially to the era of Patrick Henry Atkins and Joseph Henry Atkins, and it appears in family story tradition, including the famous goose-shooting story associated with Patrick Henry and the place context surrounding Palmer Point. Together with Keats, Bethesda, Nutbush Creek, and Mt. Auburn, Palmer Springs helps define the geography of the family's later life in Mecklenburg County.
Palmer Springs matters because it helps preserve the local setting of the family story. The people in the line did not live in abstractions. They lived in named places that could be walked, remembered, and revisited.
