Qualla: Romney https://qualla.com/romney en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:07 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Romney https://qualla.com/romney Romney: Introduction https://qualla.com/romney/ Romney has the rare distinction of being a town that started as a plantation, became a fort, was surveyed into 100 lots by Lord Fairfax himself, and ended up - by act of the Virginia Assembly on December 23, 1762 - one of the two oldest incorporated towns in what is now West Virginia. Its civic life has produced the first West Virginia literary society, the first Confederate memorial in the state, and a Civil War history so chaotic that the town reportedly changed hands more than fifty times between Union and Confederate forces.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/z/z/romney-wk/dnzz-romney-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Romney: From Pearsall's Flats to a Chartered Town https://qualla.com/romney/ The settlement that would become Romney began as Pearsall's Flats, a riverside plantation worked by Job Pearsall and his brother John from the 1730s. After Braddock's defeat in 1755 the brothers fortified their property as a stockade - Fort Pearsall - and the Virginia Regiment, u...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/z/z/romney-wk/dnzz-romney-building-the-civic-fabric.mp3 0:06 4 full Romney: How to Reach It Today https://qualla.com/romney/ Romney still has no public transportation. No train. No bus. No commercial airline service. The town sits on U.S. Route 50, a two-lane east-west highway that meanders across the Appalachians. It is about one hour from Winchester, Virginia, on I-81 to the east, about one hour from...

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