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Golden Horseshoe Review 1
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First rural free mail delivery Charles Town
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The Adenna people migrated from where? Asia
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Helped organize miners - Mary Mother Jones
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Porte Crayon was his pen name David Hunter Strother
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First capital Wheeling
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Governor during the Civil War Francis Pierpont
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Woman that was part of the moccasin rangers during the Civil War Nancy Hart
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A monument to Chief Cornstalk stands in a park in this city Point Pleasant
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Most eastern county Jefferson
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Served as Sec. Of State under Jimmy Carter Cyrus Vance
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How many members of Congress does WV have? Five 3 House of Representatives 2 Senators
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Largest earthwork Grave Creek Moundsville
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In what National Forest is Dolly Sods Monongahela
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Fort Blair at Pt. Pleasant was renamed what? Fort Randolph
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Most western county Wayne
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Two rivers that join to form the Kanawha New and Gauley
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First Governor Arthur I. Boreman
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Location of John E. Amos power plant Putnam County
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“Sunrise” was the home of what governor William MacCorkle
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Location of the Forest Festival Elkins
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Location of Tamarack Beckley
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Oldest County Hampshire
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Longest River Ohio
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Designer of the Great Seal Joseph H. Diss DeBar
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County that is landlocked and mineral poor Nicholas
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Location of WVU Morgantown
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Location of Canaan Valley Tucker County
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Location of Oglebay Park Wheeling
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Lowest Point Harper’s Ferry
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Highest Point Spruce Knob
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Four Geographic Regions Potomac Allegheny Highlands Allegheny Plateau Ohio Valley
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Invented the bottle making machine Michael Owens
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How many river systems? Seven
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Governor during the Matwan Massacre Governor Cornwell
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Started the graded system of education Alexander Wade
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WV was important in the presidential primary of this president in 1960 John F. Kennedy
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WV’s only natural lake Trout Pond Hardy County
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Oldest River New
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The Lost River disappears underground and reappears as the source of what river? Cacapon River
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Branch of government that can tax Legislature
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“There runs not a drop of blood in the veins of any living creature.This called for revenge... Chief Logan’s Speech
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Location of Pearl S. Buck’s home Hillsboro Pocahontas County
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Oldest unrestored Church still in use west of the Alleghenies Old Stone Church Lewisburg
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The largest coalfield Allegheny- Kanawha
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The “Aracoma Story” recounts the love story of the daughter of - Chief Cornstalk
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The county referred to as the birthplace of rivers Pocahontas
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John Brown was sentenced to death and hanged where? Charles Town
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Coal rich in oil that would burn with the glow of a candle cannel
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West Virginian who carried a message to Garcia from President McKinley Andrew Summer Rowan
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“Knights of the Golden Horseshoe” were explorers honored by who? Alexander Spotswood
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