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2. Berkeley County, West Virginia - Wikipedia

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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.

3. List of counties in West Virginia - Wikipedia

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   The U.S. state of West Virginia has 55 counties. Fifty of them existed at the time of the Wheeling Convention in 1861, during the American Civil War, when those counties seceded from the Commonwealth of Virginia to form the new state of West Virginia. [1] West Virginia was admitted as a separate state of the United States on June 20, 1863. [2]

4. Martinsburg, West Virginia - Wikipedia

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   Martinsburg was established by an act [7] of the Virginia General Assembly that was adopted in December 1778 [8] during the American Revolutionary War. Founder Major General Adam Stephen named the gateway town to the Shenandoah Valley along Tuscarora Creek in honor of Colonel Thomas Bryan Martin, a nephew of Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron.

5. Hedgesville, West Virginia - Wikipedia

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   Hedgesville is a town in Berkeley County, West Virginia, United States, in the state's Eastern Panhandle region. The population was 318 at the 2010 census.The town sits on WV 9, roughly 13 miles east of Berkeley Springs.

6. National Register of Historic Places listings in Berkeley ...

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   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.

7. Harlan Spring Historic District - Wikipedia

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   Harlan Spring Historic District is a national historic district located at Hedgesville, Berkeley County, West Virginia. It encompasses seven contributing buildings related to the early settlement of Berkeley County. They include the Spring Hill log house (ca. 1740), The Harlan Cottage (c. 1860), "The Willows" (c. 1812), and Lingamfelter House. [2]