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Women of the Mountain State

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This Morgantown native was the 100th woman to fly in space.
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This frontier legend is buried at Tu-Endie-Wei State Park in Point Pleasant.
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Cabin Creek Quilts was a self-help cooperative for coal miners' wives and widows located in which county?
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Laiken Blankenship is the first woman to serve as editor of what publication.
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One of the state's early female doctors, she has a medical clinic named for her in Harrison County.
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Mount de Chantal was a prestigious school for girls in this city.
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This Clarksburg native's children's book An Edge of the Forest won the Aurianne Award of the American Library Association.
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What future first lady of the United States was married at Harewood, a Washington family home, near Charles Town?
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Although exhibited internationally, artist Patty Willis' work is most closely associated with this county.
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Which one of these women did NOT serve in the U.S. military during World War II?
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