Orleans Cross Roads, West Virginia

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Orleans Cross Roads is an unincorporated hamlet that lies on the western flanks of Sideling Hill on the Potomac River in Morgan County, West Virginia. To its south, Rockwell Run, a mountain stream fed by springs, empties into the Potomac. Orleans Cross Roads lies along the old Baltimore and Ohio Railroad directly across the river from Little Orleans. It is accessible by way of Orleans Road (CR 18/1) from Cacapon Road (West Virginia Route 9) via Detour Road (CR 18).

Once the site of a functioning station on the B&O, Orleans Cross Roads also had its own operating post office. The community and post office were often known as Orleans Cross Roads or Orleans Crossroads while its station was known as Orleans Road Station. It is still inhabited today and is the site of the historic Orleans Cross Roads Methodist Episcopal Church, built in the 1850s.

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	Morgan County, West Virginia
Municipalities	Berkeley Springs \| Paw Paw
Unincorporated communities	Berryville \| Burnt Factory \| Campbells \| Cherry Run \| Doe Gully \| Duckwall \| Great Cacapon \| Green Ridge \| Greenwood \| Hancock \| Hansrote \| Holton \| Jerome \| Jimtown \| Johnsons Mill \| Largent \| Lineburg \| Magnolia \| Mount Trimble \| New Hope \| North Berkeley \| Oakland \| Omps \| Orleans Cross Roads \| Redrock Crossing \| Ridersville \| Ridge \| Rock Gap \| Sir Johns Run \| Sleepy Creek \| Smith Crossroads \| Stohrs Crossroads \| Stotlers Crossroads \| Unger \| Woodmont \| Woodrow
Rivers and streams	Cacapon River \| Cherry Run \| Meadow Branch \| Potomac River \| Sir Johns Run \| Sleepy Creek \| Warm Spring Run

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