Magazine of the Jefferson County Historical Society, Vol. LII (1986), Page 9
...ted, yet to say: ''The place is accursed!'' At present, the seat of justice is removed to Shepherdstown, four miles from the seat of the battle of Antietam, and Charlestown is a straggling turnpike village. Opposite the Court House is the jail, also roofless and torn out· but the...