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2. Van Metre Ford Stone Bridge - Wikipedia

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   Van Metre Ford Stone Bridge is a historic stone arch bridge located near Martinsburg, Berkeley County, West Virginia. Built by Pennsylvania builder Silas Harry, it was built in 1832, and is a three span bridge crossing Opequon Creek. It is 132 feet long and constructed of ashlar limestone. The center span measures 32 feet and the two side spans ...

3. Parsons, West Virginia - Wikipedia

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   Parsons is the largest city in and county seat of Tucker County, West Virginia, United States. [6] The population was 1,322 at the 2020 census . [ 3 ] Parsons is located at the confluence of the Shavers Fork and the Black Fork , forming the head of the Cheat River .

4. 1985 Election Day floods - Wikipedia

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   At Parsons, the river produced a discharge of 200,000 cu ft (5,700 m 3), which was about 3.8 times the previous flood record, and 3.5 times the rate of a 100-year flood. [19] At Rowlesburg, the Cheat River crested at 36.9 ft (11.2 m), which remains the highest on record as of 2013. [20]

5. 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.

6. Baltimore and Ohio and Related Industries Historic District

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   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

7. Berkeley County, West Virginia - Wikipedia

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   Aler's History of Martinsburg and Berkeley County, West Virginia: From the Origin of the Indians ..., Hagerstown, MD: Mail Publishing Company; Doherty, William T. Berkeley County, U.S.A.: A Bicentennial History of a Virginia and West Virginia County, 1772-1972. Parsons, WV: McClain Printing Company, 1972