Rough Run is an unincorporated community in Grant County, West Virginia, United States. Its post office is closed. The community was named after nearby...
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pledged to not run for election to the seat in exchange for the appointment. This was the first open U.S. Senate seat in West Virginia since 1984 and...
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rivers in West Virginia. Though relatively few in number, rivers have traditionally provided easy avenues of transportation through the rough terrain of...
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"Roosevelt's Rough Riders". That term was borrowed from Buffalo Bill, who called his traveling Western show "Buffalo Bill's Wild West and Congress of Rough Riders...
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Bluefield is a city in Mercer County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 9,658 at the 2020 census. It is the principal city of the Bluefield...
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of West Virginia as a new state. The armies of the Union and Confederacy first met on July 21, 1861, in Battle of Bull Run near Manassas, Virginia, where...
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The 1st West Virginia Infantry Regiment was an infantry unit that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. During its period of service...
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Dustin Nippert (category Baseball players from West Virginia)
where he played baseball for Beallsville High School. He attended West Virginia University, where he played college baseball for the Mountaineers in...
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Hardy County is a county in the U.S. state of West Virginia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 14,299. Its county seat is Moorefield. The county...
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Potomac River (category Rivers of West Virginia)
region of the United States that flows from the Potomac Highlands in West Virginia to the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland. It is 405 miles (652 km) long, with...
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George Washington and Jefferson National Forests (category National Forests of West Virginia)
8 million acres (2,800 sq mi) of land in the Appalachian Mountains of Virginia, West Virginia, and Kentucky. Approximately 1 million acres (1,600 sq mi) of the...
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formerly in West Virginia Mingo snapper, another name for the Vermilion Snapper (Rhomboplites aurorubens), a fish of the Caribbean with rough leathery skin...
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trail, a 252-mile long distance hiking trail that passes through Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, proceeds along the northeast ridgeline...
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for fresh water and food while traveling west. The town's population grew rapidly after 1854 when the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad was built nearby...
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Voting house (section Virginia)
For example, the Sang Run Election House in Garrett County, Maryland was framed and sided with lumber from "native species, rough cut, and weathered" that...
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The Virginian (later renamed The Men from Shiloh in its final year) is an American Western television series starring James Drury in the title role, along...
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28–7 lead. Slaton also had a 10-yard TD run negated by a holding penalty in the second quarter. West Virginia (1–0), which is 6–0 all-time against Marshall...
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Battle of Rich Mountain (category Randolph County, West Virginia in the American Civil War)
on July 11, 1861, in Randolph County, Virginia (now West Virginia) as part of the Operations in Western Virginia Campaign during the American Civil War...
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Philadelphia (Allen)mine Quadrangle: Dillwyn Location: Near the London and Virginia mine. Rough and Ready mine Quadrangle: Dillwyn Location:N 4,166,270 E 728,470...
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Patsy Cline (redirect from Virginia Patterson Hensley)
Patsy Cline (born Virginia Patterson Hensley; September 8, 1932 – March 5, 1963) was an American singer from the state of Virginia. She is considered one...
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Hurricane Isabel (redirect from Effects of Hurricane Isabel in West Virginia)
the region as a result of the hurricane, both due to the rough surf from Isabel. In West Virginia, the storm produced moderate rainfall across the state...
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involving rough and dangerous activities performed by cowboys with different animals, also featured. It was the first and prototypical Wild West show, lasting...
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Reddish Knob (category Mountains of West Virginia)
Knob is located on the border between Augusta County, Virginia and Pendleton County, West Virginia, in the George Washington National Forest. Reddish Knob...
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The Virginian is an American Western television series which ran from September 19, 1962 until March 24, 1971, with a total of 249 episodes across nine...
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Prehistory of West Virginia spans ancient times until the arrival of Europeans in the early 17th century. Hunters ventured into West Virginia's mountain valleys...
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Shawvers Run in the extreme north to 3,800 feet on the top of Hanging Rock in the south. Hanging Rock, Virginia is a 240-acre geologic attraction. Rough hiking...
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Sweet Run State Park is a state park in northern Loudoun County, Virginia, near Harper's Ferry, West Virginia. The park was dedicated on 6 October 2023...
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States. The rough boundaries of Shockoe Slip include 14th Street, Main Street, Canal Street and 12th Street. The East End of Richmond, Virginia is actually...
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neighborhood's borders form a rough triangle bounded by Four Mile Run in the north, West Glebe Road to the south and south-west, and Route 1 to the east....
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Justin Topa (category West Virginia Power players)
season with a 5–2 win–loss record and 2.19 earned run average (ERA). Topa spent 2014 with the West Virginia Power, before receiving a promotion in 2015 to...
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