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Coal was first discovered in what is now West Virginia in 1742by John Peter Salley in what is now Boone County.
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On October,10,1774 in the battle of Piont Pleasent the Virginians defeated Shawnee and Mingos fighters under Chief Cornstalk.
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Virginia-including today's West VIrginia- becomes the 10th U.S. state.
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The Civil War began on April, 12, 1861, when South Carolina troopsfired on Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor.
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The stone in the center of West Virginia's seal stands fro strength.
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Wheeling and Charleston kept on switching to be the capitol of West Virginia. the 5th time Charleston became the pernament capitol.
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An explosion in Monogah mine kills 361 miners.
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Miners do not want to work anymore because a loy of Miners always die. Miners have to work though because they are poor. Then Mother Jones was detirmed to change that.
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West Virignia's Capitol has the largest Domeof all the state capitols. It's 4.5 feet taller than the U.S. Capitols dome in Washington D.C.
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The current telescope, completed in 2000, was builtfollowing the collapse of the previous Grenen Bank telescope. The previous telescope collapsed on 15 November, 1988
