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What was the driving issue behind a pivotal convention of Western Virginia leaders at Clarksburg in 1841?
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Who documented schoolteachers in the Moorefield area as early as 1748?
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The founding of this institution of higher learning was funded by a candidate for vice president of the United States and a sitting U.S. senator.
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This institution of higher learning also serves as home to the West Virginia State Folk Festival.
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The football team of this university suffered a deadly plane crash in 1970.
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About how many one-room schools were in West Virginia in 1930-31?
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In 1891, where did West Virginia University establish its first branch campus?
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In what city is West Virginia Wesleyan located?
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At its founding in 1961, this was the only institution of higher learning in the Ohio River Valley between Wheeling and Huntington?
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This 30-year history professor at what is now WVU Tech was West Virginia's first official Historian Laureate.
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