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1914 Map of Martinsburg

Name: 1914 Topographic Map of Martinsburg
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1914
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1914

About this map

Martinsburg and Charles Town anchor this detailed 1914 survey of the West Virginia Eastern Panhandle, where the industrial expansion of the early 20th century met a landscape deeply defined by its limestone-fed agriculture and historic river crossings. The map illustrates a dense network of transportation, dominated by the Baltimore and Ohio RR and Norfolk and Western RR which intersect at Shenandoah Junction.

The terrain is bounded by the winding Potomac River to the north and the Shenandoah River to the east, with Opequon Creek carving a serpentine path through the center. Small rural hubs such as Middleway, Kearneysville, and Hedgesville are documented alongside numerous family-named schools like Sutton School and Wither School, providing an invaluable record for genealogists and local historians studying the pre-highway era of Jefferson and Berkeley counties.