Mill Creek Historic District (Bunker Hill, West Virginia)
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Mill Creek Historic District is a national historic district
located at Bunker Hill
, Berkeley County, West Virginia
. It encompasses nine contributing buildings, eight contributing sites, and three contributing objects that relate to an early industrial-commercial center in the county. They include: the Mill Creek Bridge (c. 1914), Henry Sherrard Mill (c. 1790), Robert Daniels House (c. 1790), John Gray House, Henshaw Log House (c. 1820), "Springhill" (late 18th century), Henshaw Miller's House (c. 1780), "Springfield" (c. 1775), Holliday Mill Sites, Bunker Hill Cumberland Valley Railroad Bridge, Stephenson's Tavern, Morgan Park including two State markers and monument (1924) to Morgan Morgan
, Elisha Boyd
Mill Sites, Joel Ward Mill ruins, Bunker Hill Mill Complex, and Joel Ward House (c. 1750, burned 1988).
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places
in 1980.
Historic district (United States)
In the United States, a historic district is a group of buildings, properties, or sites that have been designated by one of several entities on different levels as historically or architecturally significant. Buildings, structures, objects and sites within a historic district are normally divided...
located at Bunker Hill
Bunker Hill, West Virginia
Bunker Hill is an unincorporated town in Berkeley County, West Virginia, United States located on Winchester Pike at its junction with West Virginia Secondary Route 26 south of Martinsburg. It is the site of the confluence of Torytown Run and Mill Creek, a tributary of Opequon Creek...
, Berkeley County, West Virginia
Berkeley County, West Virginia
Berkeley County is a county located in the Eastern Panhandle region of the U.S. state of West Virginia. As of 2010, the population is 104,169, making it the second-most populous county in West Virginia, behind Kanawha...
. It encompasses nine contributing buildings, eight contributing sites, and three contributing objects that relate to an early industrial-commercial center in the county. They include: the Mill Creek Bridge (c. 1914), Henry Sherrard Mill (c. 1790), Robert Daniels House (c. 1790), John Gray House, Henshaw Log House (c. 1820), "Springhill" (late 18th century), Henshaw Miller's House (c. 1780), "Springfield" (c. 1775), Holliday Mill Sites, Bunker Hill Cumberland Valley Railroad Bridge, Stephenson's Tavern, Morgan Park including two State markers and monument (1924) to Morgan Morgan
Morgan Morgan
Colonel Morgan Morgan is traditionally believed to have founded the first permanent white settlement in present day West Virginia at Cool Spring Farm, and he is credited with founding the first church in what is now West Virginia.-Early life:Little direct evidence of Morgan's early life and...
, Elisha Boyd
Elisha Boyd
Elisha Boyd was an American politician, Brigadier General, and early developer of Berkeley County, Virginia.-Biography:...
Mill Sites, Joel Ward Mill ruins, Bunker Hill Mill Complex, and Joel Ward House (c. 1750, burned 1988).
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places is the United States government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation...
in 1980.
External links
- Bunker Hill Mill, County Route 26, Bunker Hill vicinity, Berkeley, WV: 38 photos, 21 data pages, 4 photo caption pages, and 1 color transparency at Historic American Building Survey