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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.
Martinsburg Mining, Manufacturing & Improvement Co. Historic District is a national historic district located at Martinsburg, Berkeley County, West Virginia.It encompasses 289 contributing buildings located within 19 city blocks and built between 1891 and 1952.
The D-FW China Town shopping center is located in Richardson because of the large Asian population. [142] Chinese immigration began in Richardson in 1975. Since then the Chinese community has expanded to the north. [143] In the mid-1980s the majority of ethnic Chinese K-12 students in the DFW area resided in Richardson. [144]
Foxcroft Towne Center at Martinsburg (formerly Martinsburg Mall) was a regional shopping mall in Martinsburg, West Virginia. Completed in 1991, the mall contained more than 50 retailers, including The Bon-Ton (originally Hess's ) and Walmart , which was expanded from a discount store to a Supercenter in 1998.
The China Folk House Retreat is a Chinese folk house outside Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, United States.Erected in 1989 in China's Yunnan province, the house was dismantled in 2017, shipped to the United States, and reassembled in West Virginia in 2019.
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.
Water tower in Berkeley County, WV According to the United States Census Bureau , the county has a total area of 322 square miles (830 km 2 ), of which 321 square miles (830 km 2 ) is land and 0.4 square miles (1.0 km 2 ) (0.1%) is water.
The Continental Clay Brick Plant in Martinsburg, West Virginia includes a number of beehive brick kilns. Originally a coal-fired brickworks , it was later converted to natural gas . The kilns are now largely disused, except for a few used to dry sand.