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Counties that Elk River run through?

• Pocahontas, Randolph, Webster, Braxton, Clay, and Kanawha Counties

• Mercer, Pocahontas, Randolph Webster, Braxton, Monroe, Kanawha

The first African-American woman to serve as a member of a state legislative body in the United States?

• Thurgood Marshall

• Minnie Buckingham Harper

First explorer in West Virginia?

• Explorer John Lederer, a German physician interested in trading with the Indians, was the first European to journey into the mountains of Virginia.

• Explorer Daniel Boone , a frontiersman who was trading with the Indians

The first formal effort to train black teachers in West Virginia ?

• Storer College in Harpers Ferry.

• Shepherd College

First railroad through West Virginia ? (Wheeling)

• Wheeling B&O Railroad

• Pennsylvania Reading Railroad

The first school for black children in West Virginia ?

• Sumner School, Parkersburg in 1862

• Storer College, Harper's Ferry

Great Wildcatter ?

• Explorer John Lederer, a German physician interested in trading with the Indians, was the first European to journey into the mountains of Virginia.

• Philanthropist Michael E. Benedum (July 16, 1869-July 30, 1959) was born in Bridgeport. He made a fortune in the oil and gas business

How far away from highway could you pick a daisy wild flower?

• 5 feet

• 10 feet

How is the President of WV Senate picked?

• Special elections outside of WV

• The Senate elects its own president from its membership.

How many counties start with R ?

• 9

• 8