Along the Potomac between Shepherdstown and Harpers Ferry lies a village where the earth once thundered and the river carried the sounds of industry. Nearly forgotten, Bakerton, WV was the thriving industrial center of Jefferson County, West Virginia for nearly two centuries. Quarrying limestone began here as early as the mid-1700s. Growth of the community and its limestone industry exploded with the arrival of the canal and railroad in the 1830s. By 1900, over 500 men were employed in Bakerton within the limestone quarries and plant.

Though the quarries fell silent in the 1950s, the village of Bakerton remains a quiet generational community, where descendants of these quarrymen and laborers still live today. Olde Bakerton tells the story of this forgotten east coast industrial powerhouse and the laborers who built it.