Golden Horseshoe

Review 2

Name the border states

VirginiaPennsylvania

MarylandKentucky

Ohio

Location of new prison

Mount OliveFayette County

Location of old prison

Moundsville

Female country and western

singer from NitroKathy Metta

WV is divided into how many congressional

districts?

three

Location of Cranberry Glades

Pocahontas County

WV’s premier bridge builder

Lemuel Chenoweth

Natural wonder that resembles scenery of

the western desert

Seneca Rocks

Man made border between WW and

Pennsylvania

Mason-Dixon Line

Considers evidence to determine if a person

should be indicted

Grand Jurry

Islands in the Ohio River are owned by

which state

West Virginia

From Bridgeport, made a fortune in oil

Michael Benedum

Two prehistoric cultures with remains

in WV

Adena and Hopewell

Prevailing winds in WV bring moisture from what body of water

Gulf of Mexico

The historical “Draper Papers” are found in

what institution?

University of Virginia

First women WV Supreme Court

Judge

Margaret Workman

Established Arthurdale, a federal resettlement project

Eleanor Roosevelt

Led Indians at the Battle of Point

PleasantChief Cornstalk

28th and 30th Governor sentenced to prison for crimes while in office

Arch A. Moore Jr.

Saved Fort Henry by running for gun

powder

Betty Zane

First women to serve as a Federal

District Court JudgeElizabeth Hallahan

WVU basketball player from Princeton, played

in the NBA at Baktimore, St.Louis, and

Seattle

Rod Thorn

First European to see the Kanawha

River at St. Albans

Gabriel Arthur

Senator from the Restored Government,

tried to defeat WV statehood

John S Carlile

Nobel Prize Winner, wrote

“The Good Earth”Pearl S. Buck

Olympic Gold Medal Winner in

gymnastics

Mary Lou Retton

Female labor leader, led 5 major coal

strikes

Mary Mother Jones

Designer of the State Capitol

Cass Gilbert

US Senator, Governor, President of WV

Wesleyan College

John D. Rockefeller IV

Responsible for the first newspaper at ShepherdstownNathaniel Willis

Sent to expand trade with Indians, first to see

New River, killed by Indians

James Needham

Land company explorer, named the

Cumberland Gap

Thomas Walker

Geologist, made it possible to predict where oil and gas

could be found

Israel White

14th Governor, ended coal strike, reduced jail termsGovernor Hatfield

WVU basketball player “Zeke from Cabin Creek

Jerry West

US Senator, Democratic Whip, Majority LeaderRobert C. Byrd

Made decision that money should be

redistributed to poorer counties for equal

education

Judge Arthur Recht

Wrote about early settlement, “Notes on

Settlement”

Joseph Doddridge

WV’s Greatest Educator

Booker T. Washington

Offered o plan for a system of district

schools

Henry Ruffner

Novelist, short story writer, wrote about the lives of WV mountain people, “The Night of

the Hunter

Davis Grubb

Marshall basketball player, NBA

Philadelphia 76ers

Hal Greer

English explorers, kept journal, found

the MANI tree

Batts and Fallam

Writer from Fairmont, wrote “A Separate

Peace”

John Knowles

She wrote poems about West

VirginiaLouise McNeill

Writer, playwright, singer of folk music

Billy Ed Wheller

Abolitionist, led attack on arsenal at Harper’s Ferry

John Brown

“The Great Wildcatter” took risk

in sinking wells, made fortune in gas and oil

Michael Benedum

Steel Driving Man

John Henry

Famous Feud

Hatfield and McCoy