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The administration building at the Schools of the Deaf and Blind was destroyed by fire
The oldest incorporated town in West Virginia (along with Shepherdstown, chartered on December 23, 1762), Romney is the principal municipality in Hampshire County and the county seat. Romney is located in the lower valley of the Potomac River's So...
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