by Tricia Lynn Strader A large, white stately home has stood on South Queen Street in Martinsburg for over 200 years. Boydville is a late Georgian style mansion built in 1812 by Elisha Boyd, an attorney and member of the Virginia House of Delegates. He was an officer of the Fourth Virginia Regiment in the War of 1812. One cannot help being impressed when spying the large home that sits well back from the road with a long treelined drive. Boyd owned portions of the area in the 1790s, and Boydville is part of the Boydville Historic District area of Martinsburg that was developed for the well-to-do...