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East Main Street (US 50) at North High Street (WV 28) Romney: Hampshire County Courthouse Annex‡ 1934 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 ...
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 .
The area surrounding present-day Romney remained sparsely populated by European settlers until the middle of the 18th century, when tensions with Native Americans began to subside. [20] Around this time, Lord Fairfax wanted to have the lands of his Northern Neck Proprietary used and enticed European settlers to move there. [ 20 ]
This is a list of lakes in the U.S. state of West Virginia. Swimming, fishing, and/or boating are permitted in some of these lakes, but not all. Alpine Lake; Beech Fork Lake
The region's geologic setting and landscape history make the Potomac Highlands one of the most scenic areas within the central Appalachian Mountains.The eastern part of the region is within the Ridge and Valley physiographic province, where long, steep-sided mountain ridges alternate with parallel broad, flat valleys.
In April 1748, he laid off several lots in an area known as the Trough, about ten miles (16 km) south of Romney, and he is known to have been in present-day Romney on October 19, 1749. Oral traditions claimed that Washington laid present-day Romney out into lots at that time, but written records from that era indicate that Romney was surveyed ...
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Mill Run is a 9.1-mile-long (14.6 km) [1] tributary stream of the South Branch Potomac River, belonging to the Potomac River and Chesapeake Bay watersheds. [2] The stream is located in Hampshire County in the Eastern Panhandle of the U.S. state of West Virginia.