Charles Town is a city in Jefferson County, West Virginia, United States, and is then the county seat. The population was 5,259 at the 2010 census. It is named for its founder Charles Washington, youngest brother of President George Washington.

“Charlestown” was acknowledged by an conflict of the Virginia General Assembly in January 1787. However, for more or less two decades, confusion arose because the similar name was moreover used for a town expected in Ohio County at the mouth of Buffalo Creek, and authorized in the 1791 term of that local court. That Place in 1797 became known as Brooke County, with that “Charlestown” as its county chair until a December 27, 1816 dogfight of the Virginia General Assembly untouched its proclaim to Wellsburg, to praise 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 amid 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 adjacent to 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 on bad terms from Berkeley County,

In 1794, James Madison married “Dolly” Todd at Harewood, the house of George Steptoe Washington, son of George Washington’s brother Colonel Samuel Washington, just outdoor Charles Town.