From a parking lot near the City Police Station, the Martinsburg-Berkeley County Club has grown into one of the largest clubs in WV,  serving over 700 members each year. Initially financed by passing the hat between the founders, coupled with partial funding by Austin Cummings, the Boys Club, as it was known, was chartered in April of 1966.

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Boxing, basketball and swimming pulled in teens boys from the city and prevented them from getting into trouble. In 1975, the club relocated to 105 West John Street, its current location. From Jack Beaver's basketball teams, "The, United, Givers, and Fund," developed a basketball program that would give birth to an Olympian, Vicky Bullett.  Alumni and longest serving volunteer, Pat Murphy invested most of his life's work into building a nationally recognized photography program.  Scott Nagley was the first of many of Mr. Murphy's photography students to win the Boys & Girls Club National Image Makers Annual Photography Contest.

 

Over the last fifty years, thousands of youths have walked through the halls of the Martinsburg-Berkeley County Boys & Girls Club. Alumni include professional boxer, Noah "Dukie" Green, former professional baseball player, Scott Bullett, former Martinsburg City Councilman, Don Anderson, and former State Senator, Reverend John Unger. Many of the Alumni have gone onto have great futures.