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Tomahawk Spring

Tomahawk Spring is a historic spring house located near Martinsburg, at Tomahawk, Berkeley County, West Virginia. It was built about 1860 on the stone foundation of a previous building. It is a one-story, wood-frame structure atop a three-foot-tall stone foundation in two sections. The first section is atop the spring and is approximately , surrounded by a lattice enclosure. The second section contains a pool and is . It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.

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Tomahawk Spring is a historic spring house located near Martinsburg, at Tomahawk, Berkeley County, West Virginia. It was built about 1860 on the stone foundation of a previous building. It is a one-story, wood-frame structure atop a three-foot-tall stone foundation in two sections. The first section is atop the spring and is approximately , surrounded by a lattice enclosure. The second section contains a pool and is . It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.

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