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