Martinsburg, West Virginia
Martinsburg is a city in and the county seat of Berkeley County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 18,773 at the 2020 census, making Martinsburg the largest city in the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia and the sixth-most populous city in the state. It is a principal city of the Hagerstown–Martinsburg metropolitan area extending into Maryland, which had 293,844 residents in 2020.
Downtown Martinsburg Historic District
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Martinsburg Shops three years before the Civil War
Blockade of engines during the Great Railroad Strike of 1877
An engineer waves from a passing B&O freight train in 1969. The B&O's shops employed many locals throughout its 130 years of operation.
Berkeley County, West Virginia
Berkeley County is located in the Shenandoah Valley in the eastern panhandle region of West Virginia in the United States. The county is part of the Hagerstown–Martinsburg metropolitan area. As of the 2020 census, the county population was 122,076, making it the second-most populous of West Virginia's 55 counties, behind Kanawha County. The City of Martinsburg is the county seat.
Image: Adam Stephen House WV1
Image: HEDGESVILLE HISTORIC DISTRICT, BERKELEY COUNTY, WV
Image: Martinsburg roundhouse WV1
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