List of historic sites in Hampshire County, West Virginia

Last updated February 10, 2024

This is a list of historic sites in Hampshire County in the U.S. state of West Virginia.

Key

†	Denotes site listed on the National Register of Historic Places
‡	Denotes site is a contributing property to a listing on the National Register of Historic Places

Historic sites

Site	Year built	Address	Community
41 East Main Street	19th century	41 East Main Street	Romney
63 Springfield Pike	1860	63 Springfield Pike	Springfield
75 North High Street	1909	75 North High Street	Romney
148 North Marsham Street	1910	148 North Marsham Street	Romney
169 East Main Street	19th century	169 East Main Street	Romney
193 East Main Street	19th century	193 East Main Street	Romney
229 East Main Street	late 18th century	229 East Main Street	Romney
3121 Northwestern Pike	19th century	3121 Northwestern Pike	Capon Bridge
Alpine Building	1860	4 East Main Street	Romney
Arnold House	1770	South Branch River Road (CR 8)	Romney
George S. Arnold House		North Antigo Place	Romney
Ashbrook	1834	2961 Cumberland Road	Vance
Old Bank of Romney Building	1906	96 East Main Street	Romney
Hartford Bealer House	19th century		Capon Bridge
The Bee Hive	1880	Bolton Street & Rosemary Lane	Romney
Bethel Baptist Church	established 1872	Rock Oak Road (CR 10/6)	Kirby
Old Bethel Church and Cemetery	1842	Bethel Church Road (CR 10/2)	Romney
Bethel United Methodist Church and Cemetery		Spring Gap-Neals Run Road (CR 2)	Neals Run
Bethesda Presbyterian Church	1894	South Branch River Road (CR 8)	Romney
Bloomery Grist Mill	c. 1800	Bloomery Pike (WV 127)	Bloomery
Bloomery Iron Furnace	c. 1800	Bloomery Pike (WV 127)	Bloomery
Bloomery Presbyterian Church	1825	Bloomery Pike (WV 127)	Bloomery
Bloomery School		Bloomery Pike (WV 127)	Bloomery
Blue House	1900	261 East Main Street	Romney
Boxwood	1870	287 East Main Street	Romney
Branch Mountain United Methodist Church and Cemetery		Jersey Mountain Road (CR 5)	Three Churches
Isaac Brill House (Chimneystone)	1830–1847	Milk Road (CR 23/1)	Capon Springs
Buffalo House at Fern Cliff	early 19th century	South Branch River Road (CR 8)	Romney
The Burg	c. 1769	Northwestern Pike (U.S. Route 50)	Mechanicsburg
Old Capon Bridge Christian Church		Cacapon River Road (CR 14)	Capon Bridge
Old Capon Bridge Presbyterian Church		Northwestern Pike (U.S. Route 50)	Capon Bridge
Capon Chapel and Cemetery †	c. 1852	Christian Church Road (CR 13)	Capon Bridge
Capon Lake Whipple Truss Bridge †	1874	State Route 259 (WV 259)	Capon Lake
Capon School		State Route 259 (WV 259)	Lehew
Capon Springs Resort †	mid-18th century, early 19th century	Capon Springs Road (CR 16)	Capon Springs
Capon Springs School	mid-19th century	Capon Springs Road (CR 16)	Capon Springs
James Caudy Gravesite	18th century	Christian Church Road (CR 13)	Capon Bridge
Cedar Grove (Ephraim Herriott House)		South Branch Potomac River
Central United Methodist Church and Cemetery	c. 1900	Northwestern Pike (U.S. Route 50)	Loom
Asa Cline House	early 19th century	State Route 259 (WV 259)	Yellow Spring
Coca-Cola Bottling Plant		426 East Main Street (US 50)	Romney
Cooper Mountain Stone Fountain	unknown	Northwestern Pike (U.S. Route 50)	Capon Bridge
Confederate Memorial	1867	Indian Mound Cemetery	Romney
John J. Cornwell House	early 20th century	230 East Main Street	Romney
Old County Poor Farm	late 18th century	South Branch River Road (CR 8)	Glebe
Cox's Store	c. 1864	Grassy Lick Road (CR 10)	Kirby
Croston House‡	c. 1840	Cold Stream Road (CR 45/20)	North River Mills
Davis History House	1798	197 West Main Street	Romney
Ebenezer United Methodist Church and Cemetery	1907	22396 Northwestern Pike	Sunrise Summit
Fawcett House (Old Stone House)	1870s	Bloomery Pike (WV 127)	Bloomery
Ferndale	1834		Springfield
Old Forks of Capon Post Office and General Store		Gaston Road (CR 45/7)	Forks of Cacapon
Fort Mill Ridge Civil War Trenches †	1861–1862	Fort Mill Ridge Road	Romney
Fort Van Meter †	c. 1754	South Branch River Road (CR 8)	Romney
Fox's Hollow Baptist Church		Fox Hollow Road (CR 50/4)	Mechanicsburg
French's Mill †	1911	Augusta-Ford Hill Road (CR 7)	Augusta
Frye's Inn	1800–1818	Northwestern Pike (U.S. Route 50)	Capon Bridge
Ginevan Cemetery		Okonoko-Little Cacapon Road (CR 2/7)	Little Cacapon
Green Meadows	c. 1900	Northwestern Pike (U.S. Route 50)	Romney
Green Palm Restaurant Building	before 1853	West Main Street (US 50)	Romney
Green Spring Community Building	1900	Monroe Street	Green Spring
Green Spring School		Norton Street	Green Spring
Green Spring Train Station	c. 1882-1885		Green Spring
Old Hampshire Club (Peterkin Conference Center Main Building)		Club House Road (CR 8/1)	Romney
Hampshire County Courthouse †	1922	East Main Street (US 50) at North High Street (WV 28)	Romney
Hampshire County Courthouse Annex‡	1934	North High Street (WV 28)	Romney
Old Hampshire County Sheriff's Residence and Jail‡	c. 1800 and c. 1850	North High Street (WV 28)	Romney
Hampshire House 1884	1884	165 North Grafton Street	Romney
Hatch House	c. 1750	Smokey Hollow Road (CR 6)	Bloomery
Hebron Church †	1849	WV 259	Intermont
Heffelbower Estate	early 20th century	Cacapon River	Capon Bridge
Hickory Grove †	1838	South Branch River Road (CR 8)	Romney
Hiett House‡	c. 1770	Cold Stream Road (CR 45/20)	North River Mills
Hooks Tavern †	1790	Northwestern Pike (U.S. Route 50)	Capon Bridge
Hott's Chapel		Grassy Lick Road (CR 10)	Kirby
Houser's Tourist Court		Northwestern Pike (U.S. Route 50)	Romney
Hoy Grade School			Hoy
Indian Mound Cemetery		685 West Main Street (US 50)	Romney
Island Hill United Methodist Church		State Route 29 (WV 29)	Forks of Cacapon
Abraham Kackley House	c. 1800	Northwestern Pike (U.S. Route 50)	Capon Bridge
Kerns House	c. 1780	154 East Main Street	Romney
Kump House‡	c. 1805	Cold Stream Road (CR 45/20)	North River Mills
Nathaniel and Isaac Kuykendall House †	1789		Romney
Kuykendall-Hicks House	mid-18th century	South Branch River Road (CR 8)	Romney
Lee Combs House		Northwestern Pike (U.S. Route 50)	Augusta
Levels United Methodist Church		Jersey Mountain Road (CR 5)	Levels
Liberty Hall	1858	276 East Main Street (US 50)	Romney
Literary Hall †	1870	West Main Street at North High Street	Romney
Little Cacapon Church		Little Cacapon River Road (CR 50/9)	Frenchburg
Malick Church and Cemetery		Hoy Road (CR 45/13)	Slanesville
Marvin Chapel United Methodist Church	1895	US 220	Purgitsville
Old Methodist District Parsonage †	c. 1868-1882	351 North High Street (WV 28)	Romney
Mill Meadow	mid-19th century	Northwestern Pike (U.S. Route 50)	Romney
Miller House‡	c. 1790	Cold Stream Road (CR 45/20)	North River Mills
Monroe Cemetery	18th century	Christian Church Road (CR 13)	Capon Bridge
Moreland House‡	c. 1880	Cold Stream Road (CR 45/20)	North River Mills
Moss Rock Inn	c. 1854	Cacapon River Road (CR 14)	Capon Bridge
Mount Bethel Church	1837	Jersey Mountain Road (CR 5)	Three Churches
Mount Bethel Primitive Baptist Church and Cemetery		Jersey Mountain Road (CR 5)	Three Churches
Mount Pisgah Benevolence Cemetery		Northwestern Pike (U.S. Route 50)	Romney
Mount Pisgah United Methodist Church	1886	North High Street (WV 28)	Romney
Mount Union Christian Church	late 19th century	Bloomery Pike (WV 29)	Slanesville
Mount Zion United Methodist Church and Cemetery	1898	Augusta-Ford Hill Road (CR 7)	Augusta
National Building	early 20th century	West Main & South High Streets	Romney
North River Mills Grocery‡	c.1810/c.1920	Cold Stream Road (CR 45/20)	North River Mills
North River Mills Historic District †	mid-18th century - early-20th century	Cold Stream Road (CR 45/20) & North River Road (CR 4/2)	North River Mills
North River Mills School‡	c. 1880	Cold Stream Road (CR 45/20)	North River Mills
North River Mills United Methodist Church‡	c. 1893	Cold Stream Road (CR 45/20)	North River Mills
Octagon House †	1890	Capon Springs Road (CR 16)	Capon Springs
Old Pine Church and Cemetery †	1838	Old Pine Church Road (CR 220/15)	Purgitsville
Otterbein United Methodist Church	1890	Norton Street	Green Spring
Effie Pancake House	1880	North Antigo Place & East Main Street (US 50)	Romney
Pancake Schoolhouse	late 19th century	South Branch River Road (CR 8)	Romney
Pancake-Kuykendall House (Riverview Farm)	1872	South Branch River Road (CR 8)	Romney
Parker School	1885		Springfield
Parker-Scanlon House (Little Meadows)	19th century	South Branch River Road (CR 8)	Romney
Parsons Bell Tower	1925	Indian Mound Cemetery	Romney
Pin Oak Fountain †	1932	State Route 29 (WV 29)	Pin Oak
Potomac Academy Building	1850	West Virginia Schools for the Deaf and Blind Campus	Romney
Amos L. Pugh Home	1885	Northwestern Pike (U.S. Route 50)	Capon Bridge
Captain David Pugh House †	1835	Cacapon River Road (CR 14)	Hooks Mills
Red House (Franklin Herriot House)		South Branch Potomac River
Old Red Store		Capon Springs (CR 16) & McIlwee (CR 16/1) Roads	Capon Springs
Richards-Mowery House	c. 1850	Delray Road (WV 29)	Delray
Ridgedale (Washington Bottom Farm) †	c. 1835	651 Washington Bottom Road	Ridgedale
The Rocks	c. 1860s	3753 Cumberland Road	Wappocomo
Romney Classical Institute (WVSDB Administration Building)	1846	301 East Main Street	Romney
Romney First United Methodist Church	1904	49 North High Street (WV 28)	Romney
Romney Presbyterian Church	1860	100 West Rosemary Lane	Romney
Romney Seventh-day Adventist Church (Old Fairview United Methodist Church)	1915	Grassy Lick Road (CR 10)	Romney
Saint Luke's Presbyterian Chapel	1896	South Branch River Road (CR 8)	Glebe
Saint Stephen's Episcopal Church	1885	310 East Main Street	Romney
Saint Stephen's Episcopal Parsonage		332 East Main Street	Romney
Salem United Methodist Church and Cemetery		Slanesville Pike (CR 3)	Slanesville
Scanlon Log House †	late 19th century	Three Churches Hollow Road (CR 5/4)	Three Churches
Old School House	1825	176 South Grafton Street	Romney
Old Shanks Store and Post Office	c. 1900	Northwestern Pike (U.S. Route 50)	Shanks
Sherrard's Inn		Bloomery Pike (WV 127)	Bloomery
Shiloh United Methodist Church and Cemetery		State Route 259 (WV 259)	Lehew
Slanesville Presbyterian Church	1910	Slanesville Pike (CR 3)	Slanesville
Sloan–Parker House (Old Stone House)†	1790	Northwestern Pike (U.S. Route 50)	Junction
Sommerville House	1830	Bloomery Pike (WV 127)	Bloomery
Springfield Brick House †	19th century	12 Market Street	Springfield
Springfield United Methodist Church	1851	25 Vine Street	Springfield
Stony Lonesome	mid-19th century	Northwestern Pike (U.S. Route 50)	Romney
Sycamore Dale (Gibson-Wirgman-Williams House)†	1836	South Branch River Road (CR 8)	Romney
Taggart Hall	late 1790s	West Gravel Lane & South High Street	Romney
Timber Ridge Christian Church and Cemetery	1875	Christian Church Road (CR 13)	High View
Union Church		Northwestern Pike (U.S. Route 50)	Augusta
Valley View †	1855	Depot Valley Road	Romney
Veterans of Foreign Wars Building	mid 20th century	36 North Marsham Street	Romney
Walnut Grove One-Room School	late 19th century		Yellow Spring
Wappocomo	1774	State Route 28 (WV 28)	Romney
Washington Place (William Washington Home)	1863–1874	386 Cumberland Road	Romney
Wesley Chapel United Methodist Church and Cemetery	1876	Jersey Mountain Road (CR 5)	Levels
Old West Virginia Schools for the Deaf and Blind Barn Complex		Depot Street	Romney
Willow Chapel School	late 19th century	Capon Springs Road (CR 16)	Capon Springs
Willow Chapel United Methodist Church	1895	Capon Springs Road (CR 16)	Capon Springs
Wilson-Wodrow-Mytinger House †	c. 1760	51 West Gravel Lane	Romney
Yellow Spring Mill †	c. 1896–1898	State Route 259 (WV 259)	Yellow Spring
Zion Church of Christ		Zion Church Road	Hoy
Zoar Baptist Church		Augusta-Ford Hill Road (CR 7)	Augusta

Nonextant historic sites

Site	Year built	Year demolished	Address	Community
70 Whitacre Loop	19th-century	2014	70 Whitacre Loop	Capon Bridge
Albin's Inn			Northwestern Turnpike	Pleasant Dale
Brady Building		1966	East Main Street	Romney
Farmer's Exchange	late 19th century		North Bolton Street	Romney
Fort Edwards	mid-18th century		Cold Stream Road (CR 45/20)	Capon Bridge
Fort Forman	c. 1755		State Route 28 (WV 28)	Vance
Fort Pearsall	c. 1755		Indian Mound Cemetery	Romney
Furnace School		2010	Bloomery Pike (WV 127)	Bloomery
Old Hampshire County Courthouse	c. 1833	1921	East Main Street and North High Street	Romney
Homer's Fort	1750s		Cacapon River Road (CR 14)	Hooks Mills
Keller House (Century Hotel)	c. 1800	1913	East Main Street	Romney
Kuykendall Polygonal Barn †	c. 1906	2005	South Branch River Road (CR 8)	Romney
New Century Hotel	1914	1970s	East Main Street	Romney
Old Romney High School		1950s	School Street	Romney
Virginia House (Parker Hotel)			West Main Street	Romney
Old Winchester and Western Railroad	1920s		Near WV 259	Intermont
Wirgman Building	c. 1825	1965	East Main Street	Romney

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The Sloan–Parker House, also known as the Stone House, Parker Family Residence, or Richard Sloan House, is a late-18th-century stone residence near Junction, Hampshire County, in the U.S. state of West Virginia. It was built on land vacated by the Shawnee after the Native American nation had been violently forced to move west to Kansas following their defeat at the Battle of Point Pleasant in 1774. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 5, 1975, becoming Hampshire County's first property to be listed on the register. The Sloan–Parker House has been in the Parker family since 1854. The house and its adjacent farm are located along the Northwestern Turnpike in the rural Mill Creek valley.

The National Register of Historic Places in the United States is a register including buildings, sites, structures, districts, and objects. The Register automatically includes all National Historic Landmarks as well as all historic areas administered by the U.S. National Park Service. Since its introduction in 1966, more than 90,000 separate listings have been added to the register.

Three Churches is an unincorporated community in Hampshire County in the U.S. state of West Virginia. The town is located north of Romney along Jersey Mountain Road at a crossroads with Three Churches Hollow Road. Originally known as Jersey Mountain, Three Churches was renamed for the three historic white wooden churches located there: Mount Bethel Church, Mount Bethel Primitive Baptist Church, and Branch Mountain United Methodist Church. The Three Churches Post Office is no longer in service.

North River Mills is a historic unincorporated community in Hampshire County in the U.S. state of West Virginia. North River Mills is located between Capon Bridge and Slanesville on Cold Stream Road at its intersection with North River Road. The village of North River Mills lies along the eastern banks of North River from which it takes its name.

Capon Chapel, also historically known as Capon Baptist Chapel and Capon Chapel Church, is a mid-19th century United Methodist church located near to the town of Capon Bridge, West Virginia, in the United States. Capon Chapel is one of the oldest existing log churches in Hampshire County, along with Mount Bethel Church and Old Pine Church.

The Fort Mill Ridge Civil War Trenches are battle trenches in West Virginia that were originally dug between 1861 and 1862 to be later used in 1863 for the civil war. These trenches lined with chestnut logs by the Confederate artillery during the American Civil War to defend the approaches to Romney on the Northwestern Turnpike and the South Branch Potomac River. The trenches were then refurbished between March and June 1863 by the 54th Pennsylvania Infantry and the 1st West Virginia Infantry. When Colonel Jacob M. Campbell garrisoned Union forces at Romney, camps were set up at nearby at Mechanicsburg Gap. The Confederates might have created these trenches but all throughout the war the Union had control of these trenches.

The Captain David Pugh House is a historic 19th-century Federal-style residence on the Cacapon River in the unincorporated community of Hooks Mills in Hampshire County, West Virginia, United States. It is also known by its current farm name, Riversdell. It is a 2+1⁄2-story frame dwelling built in 1835. It sits on a stone foundation and has a 2+1⁄2-story addition built in 1910. The front facade features a centered porch with shed roof supported by two Tuscan order columns. The rear has a two-story, full-width porch recessed under the gable roof. Also on the property are a contributing spring house, shed, outhouse, and stone wall.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Hampshire County Courthouse (West Virginia)</span> United States historic place

The Hampshire County Courthouse is a Neoclassical edifice in the center of downtown Romney, county seat of Hampshire County, West Virginia. The present building was constructed in 1922 to replace the previous 1833 Neoclassical courthouse that had been destroyed by fire in 1921. The original bell from the 1833 courthouse hangs in the domed bell tower.

The Old Methodist District Parsonage is a 19th-century Italianate residence in Romney, West Virginia, United States. It is a two-story brick dwelling constructed between 1868 and 1882 to serve as the district parsonage for the area's Methodist churches. After it fell out of use by the church, the eight-room residence was purchased and restored by the Long family and currently features 18th and 19th century furnishings and folk art. The Old Parsonage was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.

Capon Springs, also known as Frye's Springs and Watson Town, is a national historic district in Capon Springs, West Virginia that includes a number of resort buildings ranging in age from the mid-nineteenth century to the early 20th century. The area grew around a mineral spring discovered by Henry Frye in the 1760s, so that by 1787 the town of Watson had been established. By 1850, the 168-room Mountain House Hotel had been built, enduring until it burned in 1911. Also in 1850, the state of Virginia built Greek Revival bath pavilions and the President's House. A period of decline followed the Mountain House fire, but rebuilding began in the 1930s under the ownership of Louis Austin. The resort is still in Austin family ownership.

The Kuykendall Polygonal Barn was an early 20th-century polygonal barn in the South Branch Potomac River valley near Romney in Hampshire County, West Virginia, United States. The Kuykendall Polygonal Barn was the only 15-sided barn built in West Virginia, and one of only a few such known to have been constructed in the United States. The barn utilized a number of sophisticated technological innovations not found in West Virginia's other round and polygonal barns. The Kuykendall Polygonal Barn was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on 9 July 1985.

Hook's Tavern or Hook Tavern was a late 18th-century tavern along the Northwestern Turnpike east of Capon Bridge in Hampshire County, West Virginia. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 29, 2011. It burned in an alleged arson on October 14, 2022.

This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Hampshire County, West Virginia.

North River Mills Historic District is a national historic district located at North River Mills, Hampshire County, West Virginia. The district encompasses 25 contributing buildings and five contributing sites. The district lies along Hiett Run, which empties into the North River, a tributary of the Cacapon River. It has become an industrial ghost town, now visited only by summer residents and tourists. The contributing buildings include the Hiett House with shed and privy; Croston House and barn ; North River Mills Grocery ; Shanholtz House, also known as North River Mills Society for Antiquarian Arts and the Diffusion of Knowledge; North River Mills School ; Miller House and associated outbuildings; United Methodist Church ; Kump House ; and the Moreland House. Contributing sites are the cemetery associated with the Kump House, Miller Mill Site, Shanholtz Mill Site, mill pond, and millrace.

Old Pine Church, also historically known as Mill Church, Nicholas Church, and Pine Church, is a mid-19th century church located near to Purgitsville, West Virginia, United States. It is among the earliest extant log churches in Hampshire County, along with Capon Chapel and Mount Bethel Church.

The Capon Lake Whipple Truss Bridge, formerly known as South Branch Bridge or Romney Bridge, is a historic Whipple truss bridge in Capon Lake, West Virginia. It is located off Carpers Pike and crosses the Cacapon River. The bridge formerly carried Capon Springs Road over the river, connecting Capon Springs and Capon Lake.

French's Mill is a historic grist mill at the junction of Augusta-Ford Hill and Fairground Roads in Augusta, West Virginia. Its main building is a three-story wood-frame building with a metal roof, asphalt siding, and a concrete foundation. It was built in 1911 on the site of a c. 1890s grist mill that was destroyed by fire. The mill, which was originally water-powered, was converted to operate by electric power in 1949, and ceased operations in 2000. It was also updated in the mid-20th century to accommodated different types of grain, illustrating the evolutionary change of these industrial facilities.

Yellow Spring Mill is a historic grist mill at the junction of West Virginia Route 259 and Cacapon River Road in Yellow Spring, West Virginia. The main building is a three-story wood-frame structure, with a gable roof, clapboard siding, and a foundation of concrete and stone. A single-story ell extends to one side. The property includes as outbuildings two residential cottages and a storage shed, along with two mill ponds and related raceways. The mill was established about 1896, and remained in operation as an economic mainstay of the community until 1990.

The Brill Octagon House is a historic octagon house at Capon Springs and McIlwee Roads in Capon Springs, West Virginia. It is a two-story wood-frame structure, that is actually cruciform in shape, but is given an octagonal appearance by the presence of two-story triangular porches that join the corners of the cross. The house was built about 1890 by one of a father-son pair, both named Elias Brill. The elder Brill, a more likely candidate as its builder, was a farm laborer, and was according to family lore guided in the building's design by an architect who was a summer guest at the Capon Springs Resort. The design is apparently a throwback to the briefly popular octagon house movement led by Orson Squire Fowler in the 1850s.

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