West Virginia Universitys Kearneysville Tree Fruit Research and Education Center is located in Jefferson County on Route 9, just west of Kearneysville, about halfway between Charles Town and Martinsburg. The Fruit Center was established in 1930 and is administered by the Division of Plant and Soil Science in the Davis College of Agriculture, Forestry, and Consumer Sciences. Faculty at the Center usually have joint appointments in the Davis College of Agriculture, Forestry, and Consumer Sciences and the West Virginia Cooperative Extension Service. It is one of nine farms and forests of the West Virginia Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station. The Center includes 158 acres of mixed tree fruit plantings and corn rotation, a modern laboratory and classroom building, a historic farm house, a greenhouse, graduate student housing, and various equipment buildings. Orchard plantings on the site include a large and diverse display of various apple trellis systems that were established in 1979 and the early 1980s. Most of the site is devoted to research plantings, with numerous orchard blocks established specifically for investigations in the areas of entomology and plant pathology.

Website: http://www.caf.wvu.edu/kearneysville/wvufarm1.html