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This Kanawha County town was once home to the Gravely Tractor factory.
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The business section of this town was destroyed by fire on April 17, 1924.
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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 Fayette County coal mining community ceased to exist in 1962 after the mines shut down.
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Jacob Marlin and Stephen Sewell were the first known people of European descent to settle in the Greenbrier Valley in what future town?
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What is the governmental seat of our northernmost county?
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The deadliest tornado outbreak in state history struck this place in 1944.
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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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In 1972, this city became home to West Virginia's first shopping mall.
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This city once was home to West Virginia's first billion-dollar corporation.
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