General Walter Martin (December 15, 1764 – December 10, 1834) was the founder of

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. Walter Martin was born in

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in 1764. He established the village of Martinsburg in 1803 on an 8000-acre tract he had purchased in Oneida County in northern

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. In 1805 when Lewis County was formed from part of Oneida County, Martin influenced the selection of Martinsburg as the county seat by donating land and money for a courthouse. Martin constructed a large stone

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in Martinsburg.Smith, Alice Elizabeth ''James Duane Doty Frontier Promoter'' Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1954.

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