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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 (CR 6) Bloomery: Hebron Church† 1849 WV 259 Intermont: Heffelbower Estate: early 20th century Cacapon ...
The Wilson-Wodrow-Mytinger House is a complex of three structures, built between the 1740s and 1780s, in Romney, West Virginia.The clerk's office, dating from the 1780s, is the oldest surviving public office building in West Virginia.
Literary Hall is a mid-19th-century brick library, building and museum located in Romney, a city in the U.S. state of West Virginia. It is located at the intersection of North High Street (West Virginia Route 28) and West Main Street (U.S. Route 50). Literary Hall was constructed between 1869 and 1870 by the Romney Literary Society.
Taggart Hall is a late 18th-century residence that houses the Fort Mill Ridge Foundation and its Fort Mill Ridge Civil War Trenches museum. It is at 91 South High Street, Romney, West Virginia. Next to Taggart Hall on Gravel Lane is Romney's oldest structure, the Wilson-Wodrow-Mytinger House (c. 1760).
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.
website, includes West Virginia's artistic, cultural and historic heritage West Virginia State Farm Museum: Point Pleasant: Mason: Metro Valley: Farm: website, buildings of historical value, log cabins and tools, early farmhouse and furnishing, machinery, an operational 19th-century blacksmith shop, turn-of-the-20th-century doctor's and ...
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.)
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.