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The town of Romney

--As Romney is becoming a place of some notoriety as a strategic point, a short description of the town and its vicinity may prove interesting to many of our readers. The town itself is beautifully located, resting upon the South Branch of the Potomac, about eighteen miles from its junction with the North Branch — It is surrounded on all sides with declivitous hills and mountains, and if well fortified would be almost impregnable to an advancing army. It has been in a measure fortified by nature, and only needs the hand of science to make it a powerful post for purposes of defence. It is forty two miles from Winchester on the Northwestern Turnpike, sixteen miles from the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, and twenty-five miles south of Cumberland, Md. It is the shire town of Hampshire county, and contains about five hundred inhabitants. The town was founded by Lord Fairfax, and is one of the oldest in that section of Virginia.

The Daily Dispatch: January 16, 1862. Richmond Dispatch. 4 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. January 16, 1862. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

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