Morgan County Courthouse was a historic

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building located at

Berkeley Springs Berkeley Springs is a town in, and the county seat of, Morgan County, West Virginia, United States, in the state's Eastern Panhandle. "Berkeley Springs" is also commonly used to refer to the area in and around the Town of Bath. In 1776, the Virg ...

Morgan County, West Virginia Morgan County is a county located in the U.S. state of West Virginia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 17,063. Its county seat is Berkeley Springs. The county was formed in 1820 from parts of Hampshire and Berkeley Counties and named i ...

. It was built in 1907 and was a two-story, three-bay, building constructed of yellow brick with limestone accents in the Neoclassical style. It featured a centered, octagonal

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that extended above the second story flat roof and dominated the main elevation. Also on the property were an annex (c. 1920) and former jail (1939). The courthouse building was damaged by fire in 2006 and was subsequently demolished. It was listed on the

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in 2005.

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