Editing Berkeley Springs, West Virginia (section)

===Chronology of names===
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In 1772, the springs were part of the newly formed Berkeley County, named after its colonial governor, Norborne Berkeley. The waters became known as Berkeley Springs because the existing protocol was to name springs after the colonial Virginia county in which they were located. Previously, the area had been called ''Warm Springs'' and ''Medicinal Springs'' among other names.

Bath became known permanently to the world as ''Berkeley Springs'' in 1802 when the Virginia postal system was established in the new nation, and there already was a Bath, Virginia, in [[Bath County, Virginia|Bath County]].

In 1861, many residents of Virginia were opposed to Virginia's secession from the United States, some calling the act of secession treasonous. Following the [[Wheeling Convention|Wheeling Conventions of 1861]], a referendum was held in 41 mostly northwestern Virginia counties on whether to secede from Virginia and seek admission to the United States as a new state. An overwhelming majority of voters in these counties voted in favor of the proposal. Confederates commanded by [[Stonewall Jackson]] captured Bath during the [[Romney Expedition]] in January 1862, and ransacked the homes of local unionists.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Cozzens |first=Peter |title=Shenandoah 1862: Stonewall Jackson's Valley Campaign |date=2008 |publisher=University of North Carolina Press |isbn=978-0-8078-3200-4 |series=Civil War America |location=Chapel Hill, NC}}</ref> The United States admitted the State of West Virginia on June 20, 1863. Berkeley Springs remained the conventional name used for the town. Its [[sister city]] is Bath, England.