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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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Which Confederate spy murdered her first Union soldier in Martinsburg on July 4, 1861?
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This poet was known for books such as Joy and Other Poems, George Michael Bedinger, a Kentucky Pioneer, and Historic Shepherdstown.
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This Charleston native starred in the TV show Alias.
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Who was the first woman to serve in West Virginia's legislature?
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Laiken Blankenship is the first woman to serve as editor of what publication.
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She was captured by Shawnee raiders during an attack on her Randolph County home in 1791.
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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 church at Cedar Grove on U.S. Route 60 is named for the daughter of salt and gas entrepreneur Williams Tompkins and his wife, Rachel?
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