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This city began with the construction of Fort Lee.
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This town on the Elk River was first known as Marshall.
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This city is home to Potomac State College of WVU.
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This city is home to the annual Buckwheat Festival.
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Jacob Marlin and Stephen Sewell were the first known people of European descent to settle in the Greenbrier Valley in what future town?
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Hall of fame musician Charlie McCoy was born in this Fayette County town.
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In the early 1990s, a bitter work lockout occurred at an aluminum plant here.
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What town was once home to the largest clothespin factory in the world?
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The 1921 murder of Sid Hatfield in this city set off an armed march that ended with the Battle of Blair Mountain.
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West Union is the governmental seat of which county?
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