by Geoff Fox
In the early morning hours of Sunday, August 25, 1974, the Washington House Hotel, located at the corner of Washington Street and Fairfax Street, caught fire and burned, killing 12 people and destroying a block of businesses in downtown Berkeley Springs.
Locally, The Morgan Messenger, Morning Herald (now Herald-Mail) in Hagerstown, and Martinsburg Journal covered the fire and its aftermath.
There would also be national coverage in many newspapers such as the
