Municipalities

City of Martinsburg

Martinsburg was established in December 1778 by an act of the Virginia General Assembly and was subsequently declared the county seat of Berkeley County. Founder Adam Stephen is said to have named the town after his good friend, Col. Thomas Bryan Martin, a nephew of Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron. 

Quick Facts: 

The first United States post office in what is now West Virginia was established at Martinsburg in 1792.  

The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad (B&O) reached Martinsburg in May 1842 and historic maintenance shops built by the railroad were designated West Virginia’s 16th National Historic Landmark in 2003. 

The Interwoven Mills, once the largest producer of men’s socks in the world, began operation in 1891 and now is repurposed for residential and commercial use.

The capital cities of five other U.S. states (Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Virginia) are closer to Martinsburg than, Charleston, W.Va., the capital city of West Virginia.

 

Town of Hedgesville

Established by an act of the Virginia General Assembly on February 11, 1836, the Town of Hedgesville was laid out in 1832 along the old Warm Springs Road (now WV 9) and named for the prominent local Hedges family.  

Quick Facts:

Hedgesville is a National Register Historic District.

Originally settled by William Snodgrass, the town grew out of a trading village known as Skinners Gap in North Mountain

The site of a natural limestone spring, the site had been a meeting place for natives before the arrival of Europeans in the early 1700s.