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This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Berkeley County, West Virginia, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in an online map.
The first women's shelter in the modern world was Haven House, which opened in 1964 in California. [53] An early women's shelter in the United States, Emergency Shelter Program Inc. (now Ruby's Place inc.), was established in Hayward, California, in 1972 by a local group of women who attended church together.
The castle-like house was built for Colonel Samuel Taylor Suit of Washington, D.C. as a personal retreat near the spa town, beginning in 1885. It was not complete by the time of his death in 1888 and was finished in the early 1890s for his young widow, Rosa Pelham Suit, whom Suit had first met at Berkeley Springs, and their three children. [2]
Mill Creek Historic District is a national historic district located at Bunker Hill, Berkeley County, West Virginia.It encompasses nine contributing buildings, eight contributing sites, and three contributing objects that relate to an early industrial-commercial center in the county.
In 1726, Morgan Morgan moved from Delaware and founded the first permanent English settlement of record in West Virginia on Mill Creek near the present-day Bunker Hill in Berkeley County. The state of West Virginia erected a monument in Bunker Hill commemorating the event, and placed a marker at Morgan's grave, which is located in a cemetery ...
Tuscarora Creek Historic District is a national historic district located near Martinsburg and Nollville, Berkeley County, West Virginia. It encompasses 31 contributing buildings and three contributing sites, related to the early settlement and economic development along the Tuscarora Creek. Notable buildings in the district include: Patterson ...
Ridge Road Historic District is a national historic district located near Nollville, Berkeley County, West Virginia.It encompasses six contributing buildings and two contributing sites, related to the early settlement and economic development along Apple Pie Ridge.
Darkesville is an unincorporated community in Berkeley County, West Virginia, United States. Established in 1791, [2] Darkesville has been nationally recognized as a historic district. [3]: 7 A post office and school (now closed) once operated in Darkesville. [4] [5]