National Register Listing

The Hermitage

Cabletown Rd. (Co. Rd. 25) N of jct. with Mt. Hammond Rd., Charles Town, WV
Local significance of the building:
Military; Architecture

Listed in National Register of Historic Places in 1993.
About National Register Listings

The National Register of Historic Places is the official list of the Nation’s historic places worthy of preservation. Authorized by the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, the National Park Service’s National Register of Historic Places is part of a national program to coordinate and support public and private efforts to identify, evaluate, and protect America’s historic and archeological resources.

The West Virginia University Mountaineers football team played the first ever college football night game in 1892. The game was played under electric lights at the Mountaineer Field in Morgantown.