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West Virginia, United States
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Martinsburg, city, seat (1772) of Berkeley county, eastern panhandle of West Virginia, U.S. It lies 16 miles (26 km) southwest of Hagerstown, Maryland. Settled in 1732, it was laid out by Adam Stephen, later a general in the American Revolution, and was named for Colonel Thomas B. Martin, a nephew of Virginia landowner Thomas Fairfax, 6th Baron Fairfax. The town was chartered in 1778 and developed after 1842 with the arrival of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. During the American Civil War it was in turn occupied by both sides, and, after a Confederate raid (1861) destroyed the railroad, engines ...(100 of 229 words)

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