The north end of town developed as an industrial area with sawmills, canneries, coal and wood yards, and sand mines. It was laid out as the Crosfield Addition in the early 1880s, and by the end of that decade Washington St. had been widened. The Old Factory Antique Mall on Williams St. preserves part of this past, having been built in 1921 for the Interwoven Mill on the site of the nineteenth-century Crosfield saw and planing mill, with an addition constructed in 1923; a basket factory had earlier stood nearby. Interwoven closed in the 1950s, and its water tower was dismantled in 2000. Near the springs on Mercer St., tannery buildings in the late nineteenth century were followed by several canning factories. In 1923, Berkeley Springs Ice Company stood on the northeast corner of Mercer and Independence, where a commercial building dating to 1946 now stands. The dominant industry from the north end of town to the Potomac River became sand mining. In 1878, the first plant was built to mine the Oriskany sand deposits of Warm Springs Ridge, and by the late 1920s nearly a dozen small mines had been absorbed into Pennsylvania Glass Sand. Its main plant, built in 1929, remains the core of today's traditional mining operation. The Mission-style brick train depot at Williams and Washington was built by B&O Railroad in 1914, replacing a smaller frame structure erected soon after rail service first reached town in 1888 as a spur from the main line along the Potomac. The depot remained in use until 1935, when passenger service stopped, and the railroad eventually extended as far south as the former apple cold storage building built in 1911 at Independence and Mercer, now the Ice House community art center. In June 1896, Henry Harrison Hunter sent an exhibit of Morgan County sand to the World's Fair and received a medal and diploma recognizing its fine quality for manufacturing purposes.
