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03 Apr

Publication of the Potomak Guardian, and Berkeley Advertiser resumed in Martinsburg.

West Virginia's first newspaper, the Potowmac Guardian, and Berkeley Advertiser, was issued in Shepherdstown in November 1790 by Nathaniel Willis (1755—1831). The earliest known issue is dated June 27, 1791. Sometime after November 14, 1791, the d...

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