— Jackson’s Mill is the site of the first 4-H camp in the United States.
— The first major land battle of the Civil War was the battle of Philippi on June 3, 1861.
— West Virginia’s memorial tunnel was the first in the nation to be monitored by television.
— Mrs. Minnie Buckingham Harper was appointed to the House of Delegates in 1928, making her the first African American woman to become a member of a legislative body in the United States.
— The first rural free mail delivery was started in Charles Town on Oct. 6, 1896.
— The first steel cut nails were manufactured in West Virginia in 1883.
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November 19, 2012
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