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2. 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]

3. Tuscarora Creek (Opequon Creek tributary) - Wikipedia

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   Tuscarora Creek in Berkeley County, West Virginia, is an 11.4-mile-long (18.3 km) [1] tributary of Opequon Creek, which drains into the Potomac River in the Chesapeake Bay watershed. [ 2 ] Located in the tip of the Mountain State's Eastern Panhandle , Tuscarora Creek flows through the city of Martinsburg before draining into Opequon Creek [ 3 ...

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. Franklin, West Virginia - Wikipedia

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   Franklin is a town in and the county seat of Pendleton County, West Virginia, United States. [5] The population was 486 at the 2020 census . [ 2 ] Franklin was established in 1794 and named for Francis Evick, an early settler.

6. Shenandoah Valley - Wikipedia

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   Map of the Shenandoah Valley The Shenandoah Valley in autumn A poultry farm with the Blue Ridge Mountains in the background A farm in the fertile Shenandoah Valley. The Shenandoah Valley (/ ˌ ʃ ɛ n ə n ˈ d oʊ ə /) is a geographic valley and cultural region of western Virginia and the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia in the United States.

7. Opequon Creek - Wikipedia

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   Opequon Creek bridge near Martinsburg, WV. Opequon Creek (historically also Opecken [1]) is an approximately 35 mile [2] tributary stream of the Potomac River.It flows into the Potomac northeast of Martinsburg in Berkeley County, West Virginia, and its source lies northwest of the community of Opequon at the foot of Great North Mountain in Frederick County, Virginia.