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Encyclopedia Britannica



MARTINSBURGG

This article appears in Volume V17, Page 802 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: MAR-MEC
MARTINSBURGG , a town and the county-seat of Berkeley county, West Virginia, U.S.A., about 74 M. W.N.W. of Washing-ton, D.C. Pop. (1890) 7226; (1900) 7564 (678 negroes); (1910) 10,698. It is served by the
Baltimore
  &
Ohio
  and the
Cumberland
  Valley railways; the former has repair shops here. It lies in the Lower Shenandoah Valley at the foot of Little North mountain, in the midst of a fruit-growing region, peaches and apples being the
principal
  crops. Slate and limestone also abound in the vicinity. The town has a fine Federal Building and a King's Daughters'
hospital
 
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. There are
grain
  elevators, and various manufactures, including hosiery, woollen goods, dressed lumber, &c. Martinsburg owns its waterworks, the
supply
  being derived from a neighbouring
spring
 . A town was laid out here a short time before the War of Independence and was named Martinstown in honour of Colonel
Thomas
  Bryan Martin, a nephew of
Thomas
 , Lord Fairfax (16921782); in 1778 it was incorporated under its present name. During the Civil War Martinsburg was occupied by several different
Union
  and Confederate forces.


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