Facts

#1. My namesake Florence was born in West Virginia.
#2. My dad was born in West Virginia.
#3. The population of West Virginia is 1.783 million. That is a lot of people.
#4. West Virginia became a state on June 20th 1863.
#5. That West Virginia has a state bird, the bird is a Cardinal.
#6. That West Virginia has a coat of arms.
#7. The highest point in West
Virginia is Spruce Knob.
#8. It is 4,861 feet above sea level.
#9. The lowest point is the Potomac
River at 240 feet above sea level.
#10. Today, it is visited by thousands of people yearly.
#11. The palace has amazing stained glass windows.
#12. There are also beautiful grounds.
#13. It is still the home of the New Virindaban Krishna Community.
#14. Their purpose was to increase bad feelings toward slavery.
#15. John Brown’s raid was a turning point in American history.
#16. It increased tensions that led a year later to theSouth’s long-threatened secession and the American Civil War.
#17. The builders of the site were members of the Adena culture.
#18. They moved more than 60,000 tons of dirt to create it.
#19. Building the earthwork mound took place in several stages.
#20. It originally had a moat
about 12 meters wide and 1.5 meters deep.
#21. Blackwater Falls
#22. The falls are named for the dark waters that are colored by tannic
acid from fallen evergreen tree needles.
#23. Blackwater Falls drops 60
feet.
#24. The river continues through an eight-mile-long gorge.
#25. Geography of West Virginia
#26. West Virginia is bordered by Ohio, Pennsylvania and Maryland on the north and by Virginia on the south.
#27. On the east, the state borders Pennsylvania, Maryland and
Virginia, and on the west it is
bordered by Ohio and Kentucky.