Gerrardstown, West Virginia

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Gerrardstown
Middletown
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Gerrardstown
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Gerrardstown
Gerrardstown (the United States)
Coordinates: 39°22′13″N78°05′44″W / 39.37028°N 78.09556°W / 39.37028; -78.09556
Country Flag of the United States.svg  United States
State Flag of West Virginia.svg  West Virginia
County Berkeley
EstablishedNovember 22, 1787
Founded byJohn Gerrard
Elevation
[1]
676 ft (206 m)
Population
 (2010)
  Total4,024
Time zone UTC-5 (Eastern (EST))
  Summer (DST) UTC-4 (EDT)
ZIP codes
25420
Area code(s) 304, 681
GNIS feature ID1554548 [1]

Gerrardstown is an unincorporated community village located along W.Va. Route 51 in Berkeley County in West Virginia's Eastern Panhandle region in the lower Shenandoah Valley.

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History

Originally established as Middletown on November 22, 1787, by an act of the Virginia General Assembly, [2] Gerrardstown was laid off by David Gerrard on Mill Creek, a tributary of Opequon Creek. Gerrard was the son of Baptist minister John Gerrard (for whom the town was named in 1787, the year of his death). [3] It served as the site of Mill Creek Baptist Church, the first Baptist church west of the Blue Ridge Mountains and member of the Ketocton Association. [4] Gerrardstown was designated as a National Historic District on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991. Many of the village's original buildings from the 18th and 19th centuries remain. According to the 2010 census, the Gerrardstown community has a population of 4,024. [5]

Sites on the National Register of Historic Places

SiteYear BuiltAddressListed
Campbellton (Captain James Campbell House)circa 1780CR 371980
Cool Spring Farm (Zackquill Morgan House)1761Runnymede Road (CR 26)1994
Gerrardstown Historic District18th–19th centuries WV 51 and Virginia Line Road1991
Hays-Gerrard House (Gerrard House)1743Congress Street1985
Marshy Dell (Gilbert and Samuel McKown House)late 18th century WV 51 1984
Mountain View Farm (Washington Gold House)1854CR 51/21984
Oban Hall (Mary Park Wilson House)1825CR 51/21985
Prospect Hill (William Wilson House)1795 WV 51 1984

Continental Brick Protests

In May 2008, Continental Brick applied to the Berkeley County Planning Board to open a massive 100 acre quarry, "North Mountain Shale, LLC," in Gerrardstown. The community instantly protested the approval of the building permit, due to the harsh amounts of pollution that would be blown into the air, and the possibility of nearby Mill Creek being polluted. Some residents of Gerrardstown use spigots to deliver water from Mill Creek. Parents in the Gerrardstown and Inwood areas protested because of air pollution that could be harmful to children while on the playgrounds at nearby schools; Gerrardstown Elementary School and Mountain Ridge Intermediate School. [6]

As of 2012, the state of West Virginia had cleared the way for the mining operation. [7]

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References

  1. 1 2 U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Gerrardstown, West Virginia
  2. "Hening's Statutes at Large, Volume 12, Chapter LXX". www.vagenweb.org. Retrieved March 5, 2017.
  3. http://bradleyrymph.com/genealogy_gerrard-john.pdf [ bare URL PDF ]
  4. various Baptist sources listed in http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=bobbuckles&id=I00918
  5. "American FactFinder - Community Facts". Archived from the original on February 13, 2020. Retrieved April 26, 2019.
  6. http://northmountain.org/information%5B%5D
  7. "State board upholds quarry permit, with conditions". Charleston Gazette-Mail. Associated Press. January 27, 2012. Retrieved May 1, 2023.