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Where was the Guinness World Record set for "stalagmite sitting"?
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What geologic feature comprises most of western West Virginia?
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Blackwater Falls is located in this county.
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Where do the Potomac and Shenandoah rivers cut a wide gap in the Blue Ridge Mountains?
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What Pendleton County rock formation is named for a Revolutionary War soldier George Washington assigned to kidnap the traitor Benedict Arnold?
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Why was Cheat Lake in Monongalia County originally created?
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This site of a September 1861 Civil War skirmish later was a major source of red spruce during the timbering era.
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Where is the lowest elevation in West Virginia?
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In what city does the Little Kanawha River empty into the Ohio River?
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On what mountain did Confederate general Robert E. Lee first see his Civil War horse Traveller?
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