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Where was the first West Virginia Girls' Basketball Tournament played?
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What Martinsburg native won a gold medal in women's basketball at the 1988 Summer Olympics?
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Fannie Cobb Carter organized the first teacher-training department at what is now known as this school.
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Author Rebecca Harding Davis' best-known work depicted the plight of people working in this industry.
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For 75 years, Catholic nuns ran the DeSales Heights boarding school for women in this city before closing it to open the state's first Montessori school.
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About what percentage of West Virginia women have jobs in the labor force?
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How many women have represented West Virginia in the U.S. House of Representatives?
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When appointed director of the Department of Mental Health, she became the first Black woman in West Virginia to hold a high-level state administrative position.
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Which of these West Virginia National Historic Landmarks was torn down?
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She was the first woman elected to statewide office in West Virginia.
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