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Baltimore and Ohio and Related Industries Historic District

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MPS
  
Berkeley County MRA

Area
  
19 ha

Added to NRHP
  
10 December 1980

NRHP Reference #
  
80004415

Architectural style
  
Italianate architecture

Baltimore and Ohio and Related Industries Historic District

Location
  
Roughly bounded by B&O RR from S side of Burke St. underpass to N side of B&O & PA RR bridge, Martinsburg, West Virginia

Address
  
Martinsburg, WV 25401, USA

Similar
  
Balti and Ohio Railroad, Van Metre Ford Stone Bridge, Boydville, Apollo Theatre, Great Smoky Mountains

The Baltimore and Ohio Related Industries Historic District comprises a portion of Martinsburg, West Virginia to either side of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad line as it runs through the city. The district includes the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Martinsburg Shops, a National Historic Landmark, and a variety of industrial and commercial concerns that depended on the railroad.

Along with buildings, the district includes the infrastructure associated with the building of the railroad in an urbanizing environment, such as the channelizing of Tuscarora Creek and a variety of culverts, underpasses and retaining walls. Significant buildings include, apart from the roundhouse/shop complex, the B&O station and hotel. Industrial buildings include coal yards, a plaster mill, feed mills, a distillery and other manufacturing facilities.

References

Baltimore and Ohio and Related Industries Historic District Wikipedia