The first Springfield Station stood on the south side of the Orange and Alexandria Railroad near this location. Built after 1851, when the railroad was completed to Henry Daingerfield's "Springfield Farm," it was the site of a Civil War skirmish on 3 October 1861 and a Confederate raid on 3 August 1863. The station also served as the first Springfield Post Office from 1866 to 1868. It was reinstated as Corbett Post Office in 1907, changed back to Springfield in 1910, and the Springfield Post Office remained under that name until it was moved to another location in 1953.
