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Martinsburg is a city in and the county seat of Berkeley County, West Virginia, United States. [6] The population was 18,773 at the 2020 census , making Martinsburg the largest city in the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia and the sixth-most populous city in the state.
The Chamber of Commerce Building was built in 1925. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on August 29, 1985. [2] [3] The twelve-story Chamber of Commerce Building was the first highrise building in Berkeley. The building was designed by Walter H. Ratcliff Jr. for the Central Berkeley Building Company. The Berkeley ...
The Hagerstown–Martinsburg metropolitan area, officially designated by the United States Office of Management and Budget (OMB) as Hagerstown–Martinsburg, Maryland–West Virginia Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA), constitutes the primary cities of Hagerstown, Maryland; Martinsburg, West Virginia; and surrounding areas in three counties: Washington County, Maryland; Berkeley County, West ...
Berkeley County was divided into seven districts: Arden, Falling Waters, Gerrardstown, Hedgesville, Martinsburg, Mill Creek, and Opequon. [i] The town of Martinsburg was originally co-extensive with Martinsburg District, but later spread into adjoining districts. Between 1990 and 2000, Berkeley County was redivided into six magisterial ...
Media related to Baltimore and Ohio and Related Industries Historic District at Wikimedia Commons; Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) No. WV-1, "Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Martinsburg Repair Shops, West Side of Tuscarora Creek Opposite East End of Race Street, Martinsburg, Berkeley County, WV", 11 photos, 4 data pages, 1 photo caption page
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B&O engines alongside the shops in Martinsburg, W.Va. on March 2, 1969. The Martinsburg shops were used until March 14, 1988 (a year after the B&O folded into CSX), when all local operations were transferred to other locations. On May 14, 1990, vandals set fire to wooden pallets in the East Roundhouse, nearly destroying the building.
Jefferson County was established on October 26, 1801 [4] from Berkeley County because the citizens of southeastern Berkeley County felt they had to travel too far to the county seat of Martinsburg. Charles Washington, the founder of Charles Town and brother to George Washington, petitioned for a new county to be formed.