Golden Horseshoe

Review 1

First rural free mail delivery

Charles Town

The Adenna people migrated from

where?

Asia

Helped organize miners -

Mary Mother Jones

Porte Crayon was his pen name

David Hunter Strother

First capital

Wheeling

Governor during the Civil War

Francis Pierpont

Woman that was part of the moccasin rangers during the Civil War

Nancy Hart

A monument to Chief Cornstalk

stands in a park in this city

Point Pleasant

Most eastern county

Jefferson

Served as Sec. Of State under Jimmy Carter

Cyrus Vance

How many members of Congress does WV

have?

Five

3 House of Representatives

2 Senators

Largest earthwork

Grave Creek

Moundsville

In what National Forest is Dolly Sods

Monongahela

Fort Blair at Pt. Pleasant was renamed

what?

Fort Randolph

Most western county

Wayne

Two rivers that join to form the Kanawha

New and Gauley

First GovernorArthur I. Boreman

Location of John E. Amos power plant

Putnam County

“Sunrise” was the home of what

governor

William MacCorkle

Location of the Forest Festival

Elkins

Location of Tamarack

Beckley

Oldest County

Hampshire

Longest River

Ohio

Designer of the Great Seal

Joseph H. Diss DeBar

County that is landlocked and mineral poor

Nicholas

Location of WVU

Morgantown

Location of Canaan Valley

Tucker County

Location of Oglebay Park

Wheeling

Lowest Point

Harper’s Ferry

Highest Point

Spruce Knob

Four Geographic Regions•Potomac

•Allegheny Highlands

•Allegheny Plateau

•Ohio Valley

Invented the bottle making machine

Michael Owens

How many river systems?

Seven

Governor during the Matwan Massacre

Governor Cornwell

Started the graded system of education

Alexander Wade

WV was important in the presidential primary of this president in 1960

John F. Kennedy

WV’s only natural lake

Trout Pond

Hardy County

Oldest River

New

The Lost River disappears underground

and reappears as the source of what river?

Cacapon River

Branch of government that

can tax

Legislature

“There runs not a drop of blood in the veins of any

living creature .This called for revenge...

Chief Logan’s Speech

Location of Pearl S. Buck’s home

Hillsboro

Pocahontas County

Oldest unrestored Church still in use west

of the Alleghenies

Old Stone Church

Lewisburg

The largest coalfield

Allegheny-Kanawha

The “Aracoma Story” recounts the love story

of the daughter of -

Chief Cornstalk

The county referred to as the birthplace of

rivers

Pocahontas

John Brown was sentenced to death and hanged where?

Charles Town

Coal rich in oil that would burn with the

glow of a candle

cannel

West Virginian who carried a message to

Garcia from President McKinley

Andrew Summer Rowan

“Knights of the Golden Horseshoe” were

explorers honored by who?

Alexander Spotswood