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In 1877, a national strike in which one of the following industries escalated into violence at Martinsburg?
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Lemuel Chenoweth is best remembered for what type of construction?
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In 1873, company officials drove the last spike at Hawks Nest, completing this major railroad.
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Which leading industrialist built the Coal & Coke Railway from Charleston to Gassaway?
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Where is the oldest bridge 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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During the Civil War, "Stonewall" Jackson burned down the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad shops in this city.
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Which city had the first streetcar line in West Virginia?
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When it opened in 1849, this was the longest clear-span bridge in the world.
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William Nelson Page directed the building of this railroad
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