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Bowling Green is an incorporated town in Caroline County, Virginia — not to be confused with the cities of the same name in Kentucky or Ohio — and it has been the county seat of Caroline County since 1803.

Bowling Green had a population of 1,168 in the 2020 census, up from 1,111 in 2010, and it is the largest town in Caroline County.

The town was earlier known as New Hope Village, and one of the earliest stage roads in the colony ran through the area from Richmond toward a Potomac River ferry crossing to Charles County, Maryland.

Bowling Green was renamed for 'The Bowling Green,' the plantation of town founder Colonel John Hoomes, who donated considerable land and funds for a new courthouse when the community became the county seat in 1803; the estate's name came from the Hoomes family's ancestral seat in England, 'Bolling Green.'

The present Caroline County Court House in Bowling Green was built in 1835, and the town was incorporated two years later, in 1837.

Bowling Green is known as the 'cradle of American horse racing,' because the Bowling Green estate was the site of one of the first racetracks built for horse racing in North America.

The Hoomes family manor, Old Mansion, was built around 1741 on land patented by Major Thomas Hoomes in 1667, was originally itself named 'The Bowling Green,' and gave the town its name; it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1969.

Bowling Green is described as home to the second-oldest Masonic lodge in Virginia and to the oldest continuously inhabited residence in Virginia.

The Bowling Green Historic District, centered on the courthouse, was listed on the Virginia Landmarks Register and the National Register of Historic Places in 2003, and its courthouse was built in the style of Thomas Jefferson by builders he personally trained.

Since the 1940s the town's economy has benefited from the large Fort A.P. Hill military installation on its eastern border, and Bowling Green children are served by Caroline County Public Schools.