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  1. State of the E USA; nickname Mountain State
  2. area 62,900 sq km/24,279 sq mi capital
  3. Charleston towns Huntington, Wheeling
  4. physical Allegheny Mountains; Ohio river
  5. features port of Harper's Ferry, restored as
  6. when John Brown seized the US armoury 1859
  7. products fruit, poultry, dairy and meat
  8. products, timber, coal, natural gas, oil,
  9. chemicals, synthetic fibres, plastics, steel,
  10. glass, pottery population (1986) 1,919,000
  11. famous people Pearl Buck, Thomas `Stonewall'
  12. Jackson history mound builders 6th century;
  13. explorers and fur traders 1670s; German
  14. settlements 1730s; industrial development
  15. early 19th century; on the secession of
  16. Virginia from the Union 1862, West Virginians
  17. dissented, and formed a new state 1863;
  18. industrial expansion accompanied by labour
  19. strife in the early 20th century.
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