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Lemuel Chenoweth is best remembered for what type of construction?
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Which leading industrialist built the Coal & Coke Railway from Charleston to Gassaway?
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The old James River & Kanawha Turnpike became what road?
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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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Locks and dams on this river allowed for some of the earliest commercial coal mining in present-day West Virginia.
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The Northwestern Railroad was opened to this Ohio River city in 1857.
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The Northwestern Virginia Turnpike later became part of this road.
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In what city was the Norwalk car made from 1912 to 1922?
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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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