Thomas Bryan Martin
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Thomas Bryan Martin (1731–1798) was an 18th-century English American land agent, justice, legislator, and planter in the colony of Virginia and in present-day West Virginia. Martin was the land agent of the Northern Neck Proprietary for his uncle Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron (1693–1781) and served two terms in the House of Burgesses.
An early 19th-century engraving of the main house at Greenway Court
The proprietary Land Office at Greenway Court, photographed by the Historic American Buildings Survey
Bryan Fairfax, 8th Lord Fairfax of Cameron
Martinsburg, West Virginia
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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.