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Romney is a town in and the county seat of Hampshire County, West Virginia, United States. [5] The population was 1,722 at the 2020 census . [ 4 ] It is part of the Winchester, Virginia metropolitan area .
East Main Street (US 50) at North High Street (WV 28) Romney: Hampshire County Courthouse Annex‡ 1934 North High Street (WV 28) Romney: Old Hampshire County Sheriff's Residence and Jail‡ c. 1800 and c. 1850 North High Street (WV 28) Romney: Hampshire House 1884: 1884 165 North Grafton Street Romney: Hatch House: c. 1750 Smokey Hollow Road ...
The eastern panhandle includes West Virginia's oldest chartered towns (1762) of Romney and Shepherdstown. The panhandle also includes West Virginia's two oldest counties: Hampshire (1753) and Berkeley (1772). West Virginia's historically most famous towns, Harpers Ferry and Charles Town, are at the eastern end of the eastern panhandle. Harpers ...
The town of Romney, Virginia (now West Virginia), traded hands between the Union Army and Confederate States Army no fewer than 10 times during the American Civil War, assuming the occupying force spent at least one night in the town. (Oral tradition and an erroneous state historical marker claim the town changed hands 56 times.)
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Hampshire County, West Virginia, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in an online map.
Hampshire County is a county in the U.S. state of West Virginia.As of the 2020 census, the population was 23,093. [2] Its county seat is Romney, [3] West Virginia's oldest town (1762).
The Old Methodist District Parsonage is a 19th-century Italianate residence in Romney, West Virginia, United States. It is a two-story brick dwelling constructed between 1868 and 1882 to serve as the district parsonage for the area's Methodist churches. After it fell out of use by the church, the eight-room residence was purchased and restored ...
Sycamore Dale (also known as the Gibson-Wirgman-Williams House) is a 19th-century Greek Revival plantation house overlooking the South Branch Potomac River southwest of Romney, West Virginia. [2] Sycamore Dale is one of several historic estates along South Branch River Road (County Route 8).