Croghan was adopted in 1841, Denmark was in 1807, Diana in 1830, Greig 1828, Harrisburg 1803, Highmarket 1852, Lewis 1852, Leyden 1797, Lowville 1800, Martinsburg 1803, Montague 1850, New Bremen 1848, Osceola 1844, Pinckney 1808, Turin 1800, Watson 1821, and West Turin in 1830.

The county, and Martinsburg, the county seat, lay at the northern edge of the Shenandoah Valley, and Martinsburg was very important because the main line of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad ran through the town.

Also, Martinsburg was close to the Union arsenal at Harpers Ferry.

She was born in Martinsburg on May 9, 1844, and lived there until the outbreak of the war.

In June 1863, she was arrested again for espionage by the Union Army during a visit to Martinsburg.

The quartzite that was lying in a shallow sea over top of the Martinsburg shale, folded and faulted due to pressure and heat.

* Martinsburg, Mainz, a fortress which was demolished in 1809 ( see Electoral Palace Mainz )

Martinsburg was established from part of the Town of Turin in 1803.

The community of Martinsburg in the town was the county seat for Lewis County until 1864, when it moved to Lowville.

The Methodist Episcopal Church of West Martinsburg was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

There was a dispute to the name of the town over if it should be called Martinsburg or Youngstown.

The name Youngstown was settled upon after it was found that a town of Martinsburg already existed in the Commonwealth.

As a community and village grew, it was often called Martinsburg, after Martin West, another nearby land owner.

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

In 1863, Isabelle “ Belle ” Boyd, a famous spy for the Confederacy, was arrested in Martinsburg by the Union Army and imprisoned.

The city of Martinsburg was incorporated by an act of the West Virginia Legislature on March 30, 1868.

Martinsburg, WV was the setting of the X-Files episode " Small Potatoes " ( Season 4, episode 20 ).

It was designated the county seat in 1864, succeeding the community of Martinsburg.

The Village of Lowville was incorporated in 1854 and was designated the county seat in 1864, succeeding the community of Martinsburg in the Town of Martinsburg.

* Martinsburg Mall: with approximately 50 stores and anchored by Walmart, JCPenney, and The Bon-Ton.

It is the eighth largest city in West Virginia, succeeded by Fairmont and followed by Martinsburg.

The Veterans Administration Hospital in his hometown of Martinsburg WV was originally named the Newton D. Baker Hospital and is still referred to as such by local residents.

The B & O had reached Martinsburg, ( West ) Virginia by May 1842, Hancock, ( West ) Virginia, by June, Cumberland, Maryland, on November 5, 1842, Piedmont, ( West ) Virginia on July 21, 1851 and Fairmont, Virginia on June 22, 1852.

His garrison comprised 14, 000 men, many inexperienced, including 2, 500 who had been forced out of Martinsburg by the approach of Jackson's men on September 11.

Ten months later Joe McCarthy organized a second, more complete memorial service, attended by Kiki Cuyler, Charlie Grimm, Nick Altrock and other players from the Cubs and the Martinsburg team ( by then renamed the Blue Sox ).

The Great Strike began on July 14 in Martinsburg, West Virginia, in response to the cutting of wages for the second time in a year by the B & O Railroad.

Whatever happened, Windeck was still owned by the Court Chamber ( Hofkammer ), which then granted Samuel Becker, the cellarmaster ( winemaker ) at the Martinsburg ( a now vanished castle ) at Mainz the castle, the estate and the eighth of the Heidesheim tithes that came along with those in 1629, as a heritable holding.

It started on July 14 in Martinsburg, West Virginia, in response to the cutting of wages for the second time in a year by the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad ( B & O ).

The ridge is primarily underlain by Shawangunk Conglomerate, a hard, silica-cemented conglomerate of white quartz pebbles and sandstone that directly overlies the Martinsburg Shale, a thick turbidite sequence of dark gray shale and greywacke sandstone.

MSU's Beckley and Martinsburg sites will be used by the University of Charleston to establish new campuses.

Ewell, based on good intelligence from sources in the lower Valley, had foreseen that Milroy's only escape route could be successfully blocked and had already anticipated by having Rodes ' Division advance on Martinsburg via Berryville to cut off Milroy's expected retreat route, per his plans from 11 June.

Subsequently Confederate forces cut the telegram line into Winchester, eliminating Milroy's only line of communication, and by sundown on 13 June Rodes ' Division had reached Martinsburg, capturing the town along with five Federal artillery pieces.

In 2002, the band signed with Blankmind Records out of Martinsburg, West Virginia and the label released their long awaited second album, " Continuing the Commercialism ", followed by " Live on WEBR " ( 2003 ), and " We Play Punk Rock Like Bon Jovi Plays Heavy Metal " and " Punk Rock for Dummies " ( 2004 ).

She summered in Paris, before returning to Martinsburg where she was joined again by Alfieri in September.

Oberlahnstein still retains parts of its ancient walls and towers, and possesses a castle, the Schloss Martinsburg, formerly the residence of the electors of Mainz, and the chapel, Marien Kapelle, in which the German king Wenceslaus was deposed by the electors in 1400.

The geology of the Massanutten Mountains is dominated by Silurian Massanutten Sandstone, a lateral equivalent of the Tuscarora Formation in the Appalachian Mountains to the west, overlying the Ordovician Martinsburg shale.

Competing in the PIAA AA classification, the Varsity baseball team won the school district's first team PIAA State Championship in 2010 by beating Central High School of Martinsburg by a score of 5 – 3.

Major private employers in and around Martinsburg include Quad / Graphics, EcoLab, Orgill, World Color, Sino-Swearingen, General Motors, and FedEx.

On the evening of the 11th, after consulting with General Lee, Ewell met with Early, Johnson and the Second Corps topographer, Jedediah Hotchkiss, to discuss approach routes, and a general plan for the Second Corps ' objective to capture Winchester and Martinsburg.

* On November 16, Confederate Captain McNeill with 170 cavalry captured 25 prisoners, 80 wagons, and 255 horses near Burlington ; this occurred during a time when General Lee felt that Romney, Petersburg, and Martinsburg were too strongly held for a direct Confederate attack.

Bishop, who would later command a company of black troops in the American Civil War, was in nearby Martinsburg when Brown was hanged at Charles Town in 1859 and, according to MacIntyre, Bishop wrote the first four verses of the song at the time.