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| West Virginia Facts |
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The first steamboat was launched by James Rumsey in the Potomac River at New Mecklensburg (Shepherdstown), West Virginia on December 3, 1787. |
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The first spa open to the public was at Berkeley Springs, West Virginia, in 1756 (then, Bath, Virginia). |
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The world's largest shipment of matches (20 carloads or 210,000,000 matches) was shipped from Wheeling to Memphis, Tennessee, on August 26, 1933. |
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