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The property, including the house, was sold to a real estate developer in 2005. In 2017 the house sold to an unnamed bidder for $225,000 as part of an auction of the entire former resort property. [3] The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. [1] [4] [5] It was called Coolfont Manner House after the springs of ...
Aspen Hall, also known as the Edward Beeson House, was built beginning in 1771 as a stone house in the Georgian style in what would become Martinsburg, West Virginia.The first portion of the house was a 20 by 20 foot "fortified stone home", 2½ stories tall., in coursed rubble limestone built in 1745 by Edward Beeson I.
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.
In the mid-1950s, Boyle sold the track to James F. Edwards. [11] The Ogden Corporation acquired Edwards's holdings, including Waterford Park, in 1969. [12] The clubhouse at the Mountaineer Park racetrack after an evening of racing. The track was purchased by Bill Blair and renamed as Mountaineer Park in 1987. [13]
B&O's Martinsburg Shops, circa 1858. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O) was founded on February 28, 1827. [4] On May 21, 1842, the first steam locomotive arrived in Martinsburg and, later that same year, November 10, the first passenger train. [4] The first roundhouse complex was constructed during 1848–1850.
This list of museums in West Virginia encompasses museums defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
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The newspaper changed its name in 1913 to The Martinsburg West Va. Evening Journal; in 1920, to The Martinsburg Journal; back to The Evening Journal in 1978; to The Morning Journal in 1990; and to its current name in 1993. [3] H.C. Ogden's grandson, G. Ogden Nutting, began his newspaper career at The Martinsburg Journal as a reporter and news ...