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1. How did West Virginia get its name: West Virginia was formed when 39 counties split from Virginia instead of joining the Confederacy.
2. The new state’s name was borrowed from Virginia, which was named in honor of Elizabeth I, Queen of England.
3. Date admitted to the Union: Saturday, June 20, 1863
4. When Virginia voted to secede from the Union in 1861, representatives from 39 counties who were against this decision held a meeting.
5.They voted to side with the Union and form a separate state. In 1863, Abraham Lincoln signed the order recognizing West Virginia as its own state.
6.West Virginia’s historic Greenbriar Hotel was built in 1778, and more than half of all U.S. presidents have stayed there.
7.For 30 years, the hotel also held a secret bunker where Congress could meet in case of a nuclear attack.
8. The New River (which runs through West Virginia, Virginia, and North Carolina) is actually one of the oldest rivers in the world. Some experts believe it’s second only to the Nile River in Egypt.
9.The New River Gorge Bridge is the second highest steel arch bridge in the world at 876 feet. On Bridge Day each October, people gather to parachute and bungee jump off the giant bridge.
10.About 100,000 people attend the event annually.
11.West Virginia is responsible for 15 percent of U.S. coal production.
12.The state is also home to the Coal House, the only residence in the world made entirely of coal. It’s located in White Sulphur Springs.
1.The Kentucky Derby is the longest-running horse race in the United States. Derby horses have had names beginning with every letter of the alphabet except “X.”
2.The opening ceremony of the Kentucky Derby is called Thunder Over Louisville, and it features the world’s largest fireworks show!
3.Kentucky legend says that the very first cheeseburger was served at Kaolin’s restaurant in Louisville, Kentucky in 1934. (But a restaurant in Denver patented it a year later.)
4.And Kentucky Fried Chicken really does come from Kentucky too!
5.The first KFC, owned and operated by the real Colonel Sanders, is still running in Corbin, Kentucky.
6.In 1887, a teacher named Mary S. Wilson held the first Mother’s Day celebration.Mother’s Day became a national holiday in 1916.
7.The largest amount of gold stored anywhere in the world is in Fort Knox, Kentucky, where more than $6 billion worth of gold is held in underground vaults.
8.Mammoth Cave in Kentucky is the world’s longest cave system, with more than 400 miles explored.It’s also the second-oldest tourist attraction in the United States (right behind Niagara Falls).
9.Thomas Edison introduced the electric lightbulb to the public for the first time at the 1893 Southern Exposition in Louisville, Kentucky.
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