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Today in WV History
06 Dec

The Virginia General Assembly officially recognized Berkeley Springs as the town of Bath

Berkeley Springs, the county seat of Morgan County, was originally called Bath, after the English resort city of the same name, but in the early 1800s the post office name was changed to Berkeley Springs. The town in the Eastern Panhandle of West ...

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