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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
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Website Updates:
Apr 2013:
Started Will Extracts
John Abernathy Sr. Will Extract
Nancy Abernathy Will Extract
Samuel Abernathy Will Extract
William Abernathy Will Extract
Catherine Adams Will Extract
John Aikman Will Extract
James Alexander Will Extract
James Allen Will Extract
Robert Allen Wil Extract
Mar 2013:
John Lambert Will
George Gilbert Will
Elias Kerr Will
Daniel Fink Will
Dec 2012:
List of Schools
Post Offices
Nora Garvey Obituary
Bud McLaughlin Obituary
P. T. Shearer Obituary
Sep 2012:
Newspapers - Pardons
Aug 2012:
Joseph Sprigg Biography
George Alexander Blakemore Biography
Jun 2012:
Miller - Coffman Marriage
May 2012:
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