Welcome to Hampshire County WV History and Genealogy Presented by West Virginia Genealogy Trails a part of Genealogy Trails Volunteers Dedicated to Free Genealogy This Site is Available for Adoption Our goal is to help you track your ancestors through time by transcribing genealogical and historical data for the free use of all researchers. We're looking for folks who share our dedication to putting data online and are interested in helping this project be as successful as it can be. If you are interested in joining Genealogy Trails, view our Volunteer Page for further information and then contact Kim. (Enough knowledge to make a basic webpage and a desire to transcribe data is required) We regret that we are unable to perform personal research for you. All data we come across will be added to this site. We thank you for visiting and hope you'll come back again to view the updates we make to this site. If you would like to be kept informed of our state and county website updates, subscribe to any or all of our mailing lists West Virginia is covered under our "Northeastern States" mailing list. Caudy's Castle Rock viewed from below on the Cacapon River. Hampshire County was created by the Virginia General Assembly on December 13, 1753 from parts of Frederick and Augusta counties (Virginia) and is the oldest county in the state of West Virginia. The county lies in both West Virginia's Eastern Panhandle and Potomac Highlands regions.  Its county seat is Romney, West Virginia's oldest town (1762). Although its creation was authorized in 1753, Hampshire County was not actually organized until 1757 because the area was not considered safe due to the outbreak of the French and Indian War (1754-1763). According to Samuel Kercheval's A History of the Valley of Virginia, the county was named in honor of its several prize hogs. (source: wikipedia.org) Incorporated Cities and Towns * City of Romney * Town of Capon Bridge Unincorporated Communities * Augusta * Barnes Mill * Bloomery * Blues Beach * Bubbling Spring * Capon Lake * Capon Springs * Capon Springs Station * Cold Stream * Creekvale * Davis Ford * Delray * Dillons Run * Donaldson * Forks of Cacapon * Frenchburg * Glebe * Good * Grace * Green Spring * Hainesville * Hanging Rock * Higginsville * High View * Hooks Mills * Hoy * Intermont * Jericho * Junction * Kirby * Largent * Lehew * Levels * Little Cacapon * Loom * Mechanicsburg * Millbrook * Millen * Millesons Mill * Neals Run * Nero * North River Mills * Okonoko * Pancake * Pin Oak * Pleasant Dale * Points * Purgitsville * Rada * Raven Rocks * Ridgedale * Rio * Ruckman * Sector * Sedan * Shanks * Shiloh * Slanesville * South Branch Depot * Springfield * Three Churches * Vance * Vanderlip * Wappocomo * Woodrow * Yellow Spring Online Data Biographies Births Cemeteries Census Churches County Records Court Records Deaths Family Bibles Extinct Towns Marriages Military Newspapers Obituaries Surnames Wills/Probate  Website Updates: Jan 2010: 1840 Census of Pensioners Aug 2009: Crime news item; WATKINS, WAGNER obits Biographies, Early marriages; Marriages from 1863-73; Obit of PUGH; Revolutionary War Suppliers of materials; Wills; pgs 456-7 of 1820 Census Surrounding Counties Allegany County, Maryland (north) Frederick County, Virginia (east) Mineral County (west) Morgan County (northeast) Hardy County (south) Back to WV Genealogy Trails Back to Genealogy Trails Copyright © Genealogy Trails All data on this website is Copyright by Genealogy Trails with full rights reserved for original submitters.