- This Storer College graduate was the first principal of Bluefield Colored Institute, now Bluefield State College.
- The West Virginia State Folk Festival is held annually in this community.
- This third governor of Louisiana, who died in 1828, is buried on the grounds of The Greenbrier at White Sulphur Springs.
- This Wirt County native, who served as attorney general of West Virginia from 1925 to 1933, was the author of Bloodletting in Appalachia, a history of the mine wars.
- The oldest fully covered roundhouse in the United States is located in this town.
- This tenor saxophonist, born in Wheeling, played with Fletcher Henderson and Cab Calloway before his untimely death in 1941.
- On April 22, 1861, citizens opposed to Virginia's secession, led by John Carlile, met in this Harrison County community.
- On April 22, 1861, nearly 1,200 citizens gathered in this county and passed resolutions calling for delegates from all of northwestern Virginia to gather at Wheeling on May 13.
- On October 28, 2015, the U.S. Senate confirmed the appointment of this West Virginia native as head of the Federal Railroad Administration.
- Who was West Virginia's first commissioner of agriculture?
- The name of this Ohio County community comes a Native American word meaning "place of the head," or "place of the skull."
- This river flows into the Potomac River at Harpers Ferry.
- This forest contains more than 900,000 acres of land in 10 West Virginia counties.
- According to Billboard Magazine, after Bill Withers song "Ain't No Sunshine" earned a gold record in 1971, Withers was given this item in recognition of his previous job.
- On November 12, 1879, this man drove the last spike on the Clarksburg, Weston and Glenville Railroad.
- This resident of Mill Point in Pocahontas County invented the chain-stitch sewing machine.
- Mail Pouch Chewing Tobacco was made by this Wheeling company.
- This former New England Patriots wide receiver lives in Huntington.
- This Oak Hill television went on the air on December 14, 1954.
- hich of the following did NOT occur during World War I?A: The federal government built a munitions powder plant in the Kanawha Valley.B: The state created a Council of Defense as part of the home front war effort.C: The U.S. Supreme Court upheld yellow-dog contracts.D: The federal government closed the state's first African American newspaper, <i>The Pioneer Press</i>, because of its criticisms of U.S. involvement in the war.E: The U.S. Army operated Ashford General Hospital at White Sulphur Springs.