MPS Berkeley County MRA Area 6 ha | NRHP Reference # 80004412 Added to NRHP 10 December 1980 | |
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Location Jct. of US 11 and Rt. 26, Bunker Hill, West Virginia Architectural style Stick/eastlake, Other, Gothic Revival, American Greek Revival | ||
The Bunker Hill Historic District is the center of the town of Bunker Hill, West Virginia. Today located on the road called US 11, the town was developed along the Martinsburg, West Virginia - Winchester, Virginia road. Bunker Hill served southern Berkeley County with three stores, six mills and five churches. It was also home to a significant African-American population.
Much of the land around Bunker Hill belonged to General Elisha Boyd, who built what amounted to an industrial village, with two mills, a brick-making operation, a cooperage and a store on part of his Edgewood Manor plantation. After General Boyd's death in 1841 his son John tried to develop the area as a town, selling some lots and building another store and a log house. The most southern lots in the town were sold to African-Americans, and represent an example of a segregated community in the post -American Civil War period, becoming known as "Black Row."
Significant contributing buildings include:
The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.