Golden Horseshoe

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Golden Horseshoe

• Review 4

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Brought up by his grandmother in McMechen, WV,
murdered actress Sharon Tate

• Charles Manson

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Tried to assassinate President Gerald Ford

• Sara Jane Moore

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Youngest and oldest Governor

• Cecil Underwood

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Location of the first land battle of the Civil War

• Phillippi

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Worst mine disaster in U.S. history, 361 died

• Monongah,
• Marion County

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On New Years Day, he died of heart failure, in
the back of his limo, at Oak Hill

• Hank Williams

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700 workers died of silicosis after helping bore
this tunnel

• Hawks Nest

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44 people died when this bridge gave way Dec. 15,
1967

• Silver Bridge, Pt. Pleasant

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Location of the State Fair

• Lewisburg (Fairlee)

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Location of the National Radio Astronomy
Observatory

• Green Bank

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Western Hemispheres longest steel arch bridge

• New River Gorge

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Location of the PRT, Personal Rapid Transit

• WVU, Morgantown

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Five star rated hotel at White Sulfur Springs

• The Greenbrier

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Location of First bridge built over the Ohio,
first suspension bridge of its kind

• Wheeling

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The most important function of this office is to
oversee elections

• Secretary of State

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Largest river in WV during the Ice Age

• Teays

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Location of Pinnacle Rock

• Mercer County

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Cultural group that built Gravecreek Mound

• Adena

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Birthplace of Stonewall Jackson

• Clarksburg

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Erected the first commercial salt works in
Kanawha Valley

• Elisha Brooks

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Number of Congressional Districts

• three

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Location of Tunnelton

• Preston County

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Only River Drainage Basin to drain east

• Potomac

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Area of state with least unemployment

• Eastern Panhandle

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Area of state with the most unemployment

• Southern

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Where Chief Cornstalk was killed

• Fort Randolph,
• Pt. Pleasant

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Location of Organ Cave

• Greenbrier County

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Where most Europeans settled in WV first

• Eastern Panhandle

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Region location of the Allegheny Front

• Allegheny Highlands

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Region location of the major glass industry

• Ohio River Valley

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Region location of farming and orchards

• Potomac Section

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Region location of the FBI fingerprinting facility

• Allegheny Plateau
• (Clarksburg)

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Location of the only natural lake

• Hardy County
• Potomac Section

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Region with the most coal reserves

• Allegheny Plateau

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North flowing river

• Monongahela

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This event in Harpers Ferry led to the Civil War

• John Browns Raid

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Montani Semper Liberi

• Mountaineers Are Always Free