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Charles Town is a city in Jefferson County, West Virginia, United States, and is also the county seat. The population was 6,534 at the 2020 census. It is named for its founder Charles Washington, youngest brother of President George Washington.

“Charlestown” was acknowledged by an combat of the Virginia General Assembly in January 1787. However, for practically two decades, confusion arose because the same name was afterward used for a town acknowledged in Ohio County at the mouth of Buffalo Creek, and authorized in the 1791 term of that local court. That area in 1797 became known as Brooke County, with that “Charlestown” as its county chair until a December 27, 1816 conflict of the Virginia General Assembly misrepresented its make known to Wellsburg, to tribute a trader and his son.

Charles Washington, the founder of Charles Town, was born in Hunting Creek, now Fairfax County, Virginia, on May 2, 1738. He was the youngest full brother of George Washington. He came to what is today Jefferson County together with April and October 1780. The house of Charles Washington, Happy Retreat, was erected in 1780. In 1786, on 80 acres (320,000 m) of his adjoining land, Charles laid out the streets of Charles Town, naming many of them after his brothers and one after his wife, Mildred. He donated the four corner lots at the intersection of George and Washington Streets for public buildings of the town and county, provided the town become the seat of the county separated from Berkeley County,