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The Buffalo Creek & Gauley Railroad was an important coal and timber line in this county.
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Where is the oldest bridge in West Virginia?
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Where is the last operating river ferry in West Virginia?
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How many miles of the James River & Kanawha Canal were in present-day West Virginia?
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Locks and dams on this river allowed for some of the earliest commercial coal mining in present-day West Virginia.
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The Northwestern Railroad was opened to this Ohio River city in 1857.
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Which city had the first streetcar line in West Virginia?
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Of the six turnpikes chartered in present West Virginia by Virginia before the Civil War, how many were built?
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Which one of these rivers did NOT follow the path of the West Virginia Central & Pittsburg Railway?
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This road that opened in 1954 later became part of both I-64 and I-77.
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