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Lemuel Chenoweth is best remembered for what type of construction?
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Bridge Day celebrates which famous West Virginia highway span?
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Which one of these cities was NOT located along the line of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway?
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Which one of the following towns did the Giles, Fayette & Kanawha Turnpike NOT directly pass through?
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How many miles of the James River & Kanawha Canal were in present-day West Virginia?
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The construction of a 4,100-foot tunnel in this county allowed the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad to be completed.
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The second major railroad in southern West Virginia, this line carried its first load of coal from Mercer County in 1883.
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The Northwestern Railroad was opened to this Ohio River city in 1857.
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What was the United States' first commercial railroad?
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This turnpike ran from Weston to the Kanawha River.
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