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Which West Virginia town was once described as "hell with a river through it?"
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What city is known as "Nature's Air-Conditioned City?"
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This town was established in 1857 as an experimental anti-slavery community.
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This city was home to Randolph Academy, one of the earliest schools of its kind in the region.
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This town is home to the Augusta Heritage Center.
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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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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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This city is associated with Civil War Confederate spy Nancy Hart.
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The Red House Shoal here made Kanawha River travel very difficult until the construction of locks and dams in the 1930s.
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Which one of these towns was originally named Middletown?
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