The Bunker Hill Historic District is the center of the town of

Bunker Hill, West Virginia Bunker Hill is an unincorporated community in Berkeley County, West Virginia, United States, located in the lower Shenandoah Valley on Winchester Pike ( U.S. Route 11) at its junction with County Route 26 south of Martinsburg. It is the site of ...

. 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 Elisha Boyd (October 6, 1769 – October 21, 1841) was a Virginia lawyer, soldier, slaveowner and politician who served in both houses of the Virginia General Assembly, and developed Berkeley County. Early and family life Elisha Boyd was born o ...

, 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 Edgewood Manor is located in Clarksburg, West Virginia on the east side of US Route 19 and State Route 20 North just one-fourth of a mile off of the West Pike Street Exit off Route 50. Another much older house of the same name, Edgewood (Bunke ...

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- Civil War period, becoming known as "Black Row." Significant contributing buildings include: *Boyd's Store: A brick pre-Civil War house. *Jesse Brilhart Store: Built ''circa'' 1852 and operating as a store into the 1980s. It retains its interior furnishings. *North Music School: A two-story stone building. *Boyd House: A two-story building resembling the Bunker Hill Store. *Bunker Hill Methodist Church: A

Gothic Revival Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic, neo-Gothic, or Gothick) is an architectural movement that began in the late 1740s in England. The movement gained momentum and expanded in the first half of the 19th century, as increasingly ...

church built in 1912. *The Parsonage: Late Victorian Gothic in style, with some surviving trim details *Mount Tabor Baptist Church: A one-story frame building, located on "Black Row." *New Presbyterian Church: Originally built in 1854, it was heavily damaged in the Civil War. It was rebuilt in 1879 in the Romanesque Revival style. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

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