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There are listings in every one of West Virginia's 55 counties. Listings range from prehistoric sites such as Grave Creek Mound , to Cool Spring Farm in the state's eastern panhandle, one of the state's first homesteads, to relatively newer, yet still historical, residences and commercial districts.
Beginning in the mid-to-late 18th century, members of the Washington family and other prominent Virginia families began to build elegant Georgian mansions on their plantations in the Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians region of present-day West Virginia. [1]
3.5 mi (5.6 km) west of Charles Town off Virginia State Route 51 and south on County Road 51/1 39°17′06″N 77°55′22″W / 39.285°N 77.922778°W / 39.285; -77.922778 ( Cedar Charles Town
William Green's 1669 patent for 1,150 acres (4.7 km 2) encompassed most of the peninsula between Dogue Creek and Accotink Creek, along the Potomac River.Although this property was sub-divided and sold in the early 18th century, it was reassembled during the 1730s to create the central portion of Col. William Fairfax's 2,200-acre (8.9 km 2) plantation of Belvoir Manor.
early 20th century West Main & South High Streets Romney: North River Mills Grocery‡ c.1810/c.1920 Cold Stream Road (CR 45/20) North River Mills: North River Mills Historic District† mid-18th century - early-20th century Cold Stream Road (CR 45/20) & North River Road (CR 4/2) North River Mills: North River Mills School‡ c. 1880
Fort Pleasant — formerly known as Fort Van Meter and Town Fort [2] [3] [4] and still also known as the Isaac Van Meter House — is a historic site located near the unincorporated community of Old Fields about 5 miles north of Moorefield in Hardy County, West Virginia, U.S. Situated on the South Branch Potomac River, a young Colonel George Washington directed a fortification to be built here ...
1755 Fry-Jefferson map showing earlier established colonial borders before the French And Indian War.. In the 18th century, British land speculators several times attempted to colonize the Ohio Valley, most notably in 1748 when the British Crown granted a petition of the Ohio Company for 200,000 acres (800 km 2) near the "Forks of the Ohio" (present-day Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania). [2]
White House Farm (Jefferson County, West Virginia) Charles Town, West Virginia: c. 1740 Residence and farm House c. 1740, barn is oldest in West Virginia Aspen Hall (Martinsburg, West Virginia) Martinsburg, West Virginia: c. 1741 Residence Main house built 1775, earliest portion 1741 Maidstone-on-the-Potomac: Martinsburg, West Virginia: c. 1741 ...