Post Office that serves a large portion of Morgan County to include the municipality of the Town of Bath.

Notable colonial visitors to the area included George Washington and James Rumsey.

Berkeley Springs remained a popular resort area during the United States' early years.

It is the home of the Berkeley Springs International Water Tasting,[6] the longest-running and largest such event in the world.

Washington returned several times over the next several years with his half-brother, Lawrence, who was ill, hoping that the warm springs might improve his health.

The springs, and their rumored medicinal benefits, attracted numerous Native Americans and Europeans to the area.

Lord Fairfax had built a summer home there and a "private bath", making the area a popular destination for Virginia's social elite.

With the advent of independence, An act for establishing a town at the Warm Springs in the county of Berkeley[7] was adopted by the Virginia General Assembly in December 1776.

The area around the springs always was public land known as The Grove and overseen by a state-appointed group of Bath Trustees.

[citation needed] Bath's population increased during and immediately after the Revolutionary War as wounded soldiers and others came to the area believing that the warm springs had medicinal qualities.

Confederates commanded by Stonewall Jackson captured Bath during the Romney Expedition in January 1862, and ransacked the homes of local unionists.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the incorporated town of Bath has a total area of 0.34 square miles (0.88 km2), all land.

Berkeley Springs is nestled northwest of the Shenandoah Valley at an elevation of approximately 656 feet (200 m).

Warm Spring Run cuts through the center of the town and eventually connects with the Potomac River near Hancock Station.

The other primary highway serving Berkeley Springs is West Virginia Route 9, oriented in a general northwest-to-southeast alignment.

The two highways run concurrently for a short stretch along Main Street in Berkeley Springs.

A location in the online multiplayer game Fallout 76 was named and inspired by Berkeley Springs.