Editing Hedgesville, West Virginia (section)

==History==
Up to the 18th Century, the area was home to the [[Tuscarora people]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Indian History of Present Day Berkeley County, West Virginia |url=https://nativeheritageproject.com/2015/09/13/indian-history-of-present-day-berkeley-county-west-virginia| access-date= March 19, 2019}}</ref> The Hedgesville area was subsequently settled by William [[Snodgrass]], who arrived in the American colonies in 1700. William Snodgrass is buried in the cemetery of Tuscarora Presbyterian Church in Berkeley County, West Virginia.

Officially established by an act of the Virginia General Assembly on February 11, 1836,<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KvBQAQAAMAAJ&q=1836+hedgesville&pg=PA27|title=Acts of the General Assembly of the State of Virginia |date= January 1, 1836|publisher=J. E. Goode|pages=360 |language=en}}</ref> the Town of Hedgesville was laid out in 1832 along the old Warm Springs Road (now [[West Virginia Route 9]]) and named for the prominent local Hedges family.<ref>{{cite book |title= Chronicles of Old Berkeley: A Narrative History of a Virginia County from Its Beginnings to 1926 |last=Kenny |first= Hamill |chapter= West Virginia Place Names: Their Origin and Meaning, Including the Nomenclature of the Streams and Mountains |url= https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015009099824;view=1up;seq=332;size=125 |year=1945 |publisher= The Place Name Press |location= Piedmont, WV |page=304}}</ref> In 1854, Hedgesville was officially incorporated by the General Assembly. The act of incorporation provided for a town council consisting of seven trustees, but the act was amended in 1858 so that a mayor could be added to the council.<ref>{{Cite book |first=Ann |last=Gardiner |title= Chronicles of Old Berkeley: A Narrative History of a Virginia County from Its Beginnings to 1926 |publisher= The Seeman Press |year=1938 |pages=41–42 |language=en}}</ref> Hedgesville is a [[National Register of Historic Places|National Register Historic District]].