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The completion of the Coal & Coke Railway in 1906 made this town an important railroad junction.
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The city of Glenville is known for what festival.
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This Ritchie County city was named for a general who helped try and convict the conspirators following Abraham Lincoln's assassination.
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This city once had what is believed to be the largest toilet ware factory in the world.
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This town was established to make munitions for World War I, but the war ended before production started.
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This town primarily owes its founding to the Virginian Railway.
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After the discovery of oil, this city's population increased from from about 600 in 1888 to 7,000 in 1898.
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The first glass factory in present West Virginia was built here in 1813.
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This was the site of West Virginia's first mental health hospital.
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What city were three of West Virginia's first six governors from?
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