Tomahawk Spring is a historic
spring house
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located near
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In the United States:
* Martinsburg, Indiana
*Martinsburg, Iowa
*Sandy Hook, Kentucky, originally incorporated as Martinsburg
*Martinsburg, Missouri
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...
, at
Tomahawk
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,
Berkeley County, West Virginia
Berkeley County is located in the Shenandoah Valley in the Eastern Panhandle region of West Virginia in the United States. The county is part of the Hagerstown-Martinsburg, MD- WV Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of the 2020 census, the cou ...
. It was built about 1860 on the stone foundation of a previous building. It is a one-story, wood-frame structure atop a three-feet-tall stone foundation in two sections. The first section is atop the spring and is approximately , surrounded by a
lattice
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Arts and design
* Latticework, an ornamental criss-crossed framework, an arrangement of crossing laths or other thin strips of material
* Lattice (music), an organized grid model of pitch ratios
* Lattice (pastry), an ornam ...
enclosure. The second section contains a pool and is .
It was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places
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in 1994.
References
Agricultural buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in West Virginia
Houses completed in 1860
Buildings and structures in Berkeley County, West Virginia
National Register of Historic Places in Berkeley County, West Virginia
Spring houses
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