Martinsburg travel guide

Martinsburg is a city in Berkeley County, West Virginia, United States. As of the 2000 census, the population of Martinsburg was 14,972. However, the 2006 Census estimate places the city with a population of 16,392 http://www.census.gov/popest/cities/tables/SUB-EST2006-04-54.csv. It is the county seat of Berkeley County and one of the core cities in the Hagerstown-Martinsburg, MD-WV Metropolitan Statistical Area. Martinsburg was founded in 1778 by General Adam Stephen who named it in honor of Colonel Thomas Bryan Martin, a nephew of Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron. It was incorporated by an act of the West Virginia Legislature March 30, 1868. It is also home to the 167th Airlift Wing of the West Virginia Air National Guard. The city is growing rapidly from the influx of people moving from Washington DC and Baltimore. (...) more....

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