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In 1857 Griggs sold the farm, then 146 acres (59 ha), to Ambrose Timberlake. The property, unlike many in Jefferson County, was not greatly affected during the American Civil War. In 1869 the farm passed to Adam Young. The Young family kept the property for almost 100 years. By 1925 they had named it Cool Spring Farm.
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Berkeley 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.
There are listings in every one of West Virginia's 55 counties. Listings range from prehistoric sites such as Grave Creek Mound, to Cool Spring Farm in the state's eastern panhandle, one of the state's first homesteads, to relatively newer, yet still historical, residences and commercial districts.
Cool Spring Farm (Zackquill Morgan House) 1761 Runnymede Road (CR 26) 1994 Gerrardstown Historic District: 18th–19th centuries WV 51 and Virginia Line Road 1991 Hays-Gerrard House (Gerrard House) 1743 Congress Street 1985 Marshy Dell (Gilbert and Samuel McKown House) late 18th century WV 51: 1984 Mountain View Farm (Washington Gold House ...
Morgan Morgan's seventh son, Zackquill Morgan (1735-1795), built the house in 1761, but sold the farm in 1765 and moved west to Monongalia County, Virginia, now West Virginia, to establish his namesake settlement of Morgantown in 1781.
Cool Spring Farm may refer to: . Cool Spring Farm (Charles Town, West Virginia), listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in Jefferson County Cool Spring Farm (Gerrardstown, West Virginia), NRHP-listed in Berkeley County, was believed to be first European settlement, by Morgan Morgan, in what became the state of West Virginia
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At the time of the county's formation, Berkeley County comprised areas that now are part of present-day Jefferson and Morgan counties in West Virginia. Most historians believe the county was named for Norborne Berkeley, Baron de Botetourt (1718–1770), Colonial Governor of Virginia from 1768 to 1770.