Golden Horseshoe

Review 3

He struck oil at Burning Springs

Samuel D. Karnes

The 1924 Democratic

candidate for President from WV

John Davis

WV Governor responsible for desegregating

schools

William Marland

WVU football, NFL Hall of fame, played

for Giants and Redskins

Sam Huff

Reporter from Harpers Magazine, described the destruction at Harper’s

Ferry

Porte Crayon

David Hunter Strother

Two opera singers

Phyllis Curtain

Eleanor Steber

Religious leader and founder of

Bethany CollegeAlexander Campbell

French explorer that placed lead

plates in the banks of the Ohio River

Celoron de Bienville

Mingo Indian Chief, his family was murdered

Chief Logan

First English explorer into the interior of WV

Christopher Newport

Confederate General that destroyed Harper’s Ferry

Stonewall Jackson

Senator from the restored government,

sponsored an amendment that made

statehood possible

Waitman T. Willey

Exhibited his steam boat at

Shepherdstown on the Potomac River

James Rumsey

Sheriff of Matewan at the

Matewan Massacre

Sid Hatfield

WV is shaped from what large

mountain system?

Appalachians

The largest tributary of the

Ohio

Kanawha

Spectacular overhanging rocks where the South Branch cuts through

Hardy and Hampshire Counties

The Trough

Where one sided spruce trees are

foundDolly Sods

Largest County

Randolph

Where the Kanawha River meets the Ohio

River

Point Pleasant

The Attorney General’s office is

part of what branch of government?

Executive

Who would replace the

Governor if he died?

Senate President

Who founded Mother’s Day?

Where?Anna Jarvis - Grafton

The Morrill Land Act of 1862 provided for

what?WVU

First developed the concept of vocational education

Booker T. Washington

Name of the loyal government of Virginia during the Civil War

Restored Govt. of Va.

Location of the Mountain State Forest Festival

Elkins

State Capital

Charleston

Location of the Festival of Lights

Wheeling

Location of The Greenbrier

White Sulphur Springs

Location of the Blue Ridge Outlet

Mall

Martinsburg

The geographic center of the state

Braxton County

Location of the FBI Fingerprinting

Center

Clarksburg

Location of Blennerhassett

Island

Parkersburg

Three ways pioneers obtained

their landCorn Rights

Settlement Rights

Tomahawk Rights

What river could you travel south

downstream?

Greenbrier

First to fly faster than the speed of

sound

Chuck Yeager

Who chooses the State

Superintendent of Schools?

WV Board of Ed.

First battle of the American

Revolution

Battle of Pt. Pleasant

1972 collapse of dam in which over

100 people drowned

Buffalo Creek

First National Strike

Martinsburg (RR)

Prohibited workers from

striking

injuction

“Nail” City

Wheeling

Kind of coal in WV

Bituminous

Killed Alexander Hamilton,

conspired with Blennerhassett

Aaron Burr

Actress and spy, helped Stonewall

Jackson

Belle Boyd

Pulitzer and Nobel Prize winner from

Hillsboro

Pearl S. Buck

White man turned Indian, led Shawnee

at the Battle of Fallen Timbers

Blue Jacket

Bully of the boatman, keel

boater on the Ohio an Mississippi

Mike Fink

Barney Fife on the Andy Griffth

Show

Don Knotts