<P> 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 . </P> <P> West Virginia became a state following the Wheeling Conventions of 1861, in which 50 northwestern counties of Virginia decided to break away from Virginia during the American Civil War . The new state was admitted to the Union on June 20, 1863 . Berkeley Springs remained the conventional name used for the town . Its Sister City is Bath, England . </P> <P> Berkeley Springs is located at 39 ° 37 ′ 32" N 78 ° 13 ′ 37" W ﻿ / ﻿ 39.62556 ° N 78.22694 ° W ﻿ / 39.62556; - 78.22694 (39.625562, - 78.226862), in the Appalachian Mountains . The town lies in the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia 26 miles NW of Martinsburg, West Virginia and 36 miles W of Hagerstown, Maryland . Berkeley Springs is the county seat of Morgan County . Morgan County makes up one of the western counties in the Eastern Panhandle . </P> <P> According to the United States Census Bureau, the incorporated town of Bath has a total area of 0.34 square miles (0.88 km), all land . </P>

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