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Romney: Arnold House: 1770 South Branch River Road (CR 8) Romney: George S. Arnold House: North Antigo Place Romney: Ashbrook: 1834 2961 Cumberland Road Vance: Old Bank of Romney Building: 1906 96 East Main Street Romney: Hartford Bealer House: 19th century Capon Bridge: The Bee Hive: 1880 Bolton Street & Rosemary Lane Romney: Bethel Baptist ...
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).
United States historic place Ridgedale U.S. National Register of Historic Places U.S. Historic district Washington Bottom Farm Show map of Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia Washington Bottom Farm Show map of West Virginia Washington Bottom Farm Show map of the United States Coordinates 39°24′49″N 78°44′19″W / 39.41361°N 78.73861°W / 39.41361; -78.73861 Area 251.6 acres ...
The Trough is a 6-mile long wooded gorge carved by the South Branch Potomac River (SBPR) and situated in the Allegheny Mountains of Hampshire and Hardy Counties, West Virginia, US. The area was the site of a 1756 skirmish of the French and Indian War , known as the " Battle of the Trough ".
Fort Pearsall was an early frontier fort constructed in 1756 in Romney, West Virginia (then known as Pearsall's Flats, Virginia) to protect local settlers in the South Branch Potomac River valley against Native American raids. The area around present-day Romney had been settled as early as 1725 by hunters and traders in the valley.
Other historic homes located along the South Branch Potomac River face the river; the mansion at Wappocomo is unique in that its formal façade faces toward Cumberland Road (West Virginia Route 28) and the western flanks of South Branch Mountain. This may be due in part to the house's distance from the river, approximately 0.5 miles (0.80 km).
South Branch Depot also known as South Branch is an unincorporated community in Hampshire County in the U.S. state of West Virginia.Originally known as Forks of Potomac because of its proximity to the confluence of the North and South Branches of the Potomac River and then later in the early 20th century as French's Station and then simply South Branch, South Branch Depot served as a depot and ...
McDonald also sent a scouting party down the South Branch on the night of September 23. Hanging Rocks was a strategic location during the American Civil War. [3] Troops traveling between Romney and points north, including Cumberland and Green Spring, naturally utilized the Romney and Cumberland Pike at the base of Hanging Rocks.