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Transportation in Berkeley County, West Virginia (10 P) Pages in category "Berkeley County, West Virginia" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total.
Inwood is a census-designated place (CDP) in Berkeley County, West Virginia, United States, located south of Martinsburg in the lower Shenandoah Valley. The population was 2,954 at the 2010 census. [3] It is located on U.S. Route 11.
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 ...
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.
In 1871, the U.S. Supreme Court decided Virginia v. West Virginia, [7] upholding the "secession" of West Virginia, including Berkeley and Jefferson counties, from Virginia. [8] In 2011, West Virginia state delegate Larry Kump sponsored legislation to allow Morgan, Berkeley, and Jefferson counties to rejoin Virginia by popular vote. [9]
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.