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Shepherdstown, West Virginia

O'Hurley's General Store

This general store is more than a century old and home to various oddities and antiques.

Shepherdstown, West Virginia

Birthplace of the Steamboat

A monument marks the location of the first successful steamboat demonstration.

Shepherdstown, West Virginia

Shepherdstown Public Library

The "All-Seeing Eye of God" symbol on this library is a clue to one of the many former lives of this building.

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Killiansburg Cave

A cave on the Maryland border where civilians took refuge during the bloodiest battle of the Civil War.

2 miles from Shepherdstown

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National Tracing Center

Endless rows of boxes of paper records line the hallways of the archaic federal facility where guns are traced.

6 miles from Shepherdstown

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Crystal Grottoes Caverns

Bizarre Cavern.

8 miles from Shepherdstown

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Jefferson Rock

This shale formation along the Appalachian Trail once inspired the third president of the United States.

8 miles from Shepherdstown

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