The Bunker Hill Historic District is the center of the town of Bunker Hill, West Virginia

Bunker Hill, West Virginia

Bunker Hill is an unincorporated town in Berkeley County, West Virginia, United States located on Winchester Pike at its junction with West Virginia Secondary Route 26 south of Martinsburg. It is the site of the confluence of Torytown Run and Mill Creek, a tributary of Opequon Creek...

. Today located on the road called US 11, the town was developed along the Martinsburg, West Virginia

Martinsburg, West Virginia

Martinsburg is a city in the Eastern Panhandle region of West Virginia, United States. The city's population was 14,972 at the 2000 census; according to a 2009 Census Bureau estimate, Martinsburg's population was 17,117, making it the largest city in the Eastern Panhandle and the eighth largest...

 - Winchester, Virginia

Winchester, Virginia

Winchester is an independent city located in the northwestern portion of the Commonwealth of Virginia in the USA. The city's population was 26,203 according to the 2010 Census...

 road. Bunker Hill served southern Berkeley County

Berkeley County, West Virginia

Berkeley County is a county located in the Eastern Panhandle region of the U.S. state of West Virginia. As of 2010, the population is 104,169, making it the second-most populous county in West Virginia, behind Kanawha...

 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

Elisha Boyd was an American politician, Brigadier General, and early developer of Berkeley County, Virginia.-Biography:...

, 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 (Bunker Hill, West Virginia)

Edgewood, also known as the John Boyd House, is a historic home located at Bunker Hill, Berkeley County, West Virginia. It was built in 1839 and is a two story, five bay, brick dwelling with a gable roof in the Greek Revival style. The entrance features a semi-elliptical transom and sidelights. ...

 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 -American Civil War

American Civil War

The American Civil War was a civil war fought in the United States of America. In response to the election of Abraham Lincoln as President of the United States, 11 southern slave states declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America ; the other 25...

 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 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

National Register of Historic Places

The National Register of Historic Places is the United States government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation...

in 1980.