Posted in West Virginia
August 04, 2015
Some People Don’t Know That West Virginia Was The First To Do These 12 Things
Ready for some Mountain State trivia? West Virginia has been the birth place of many ideas and inventions. Here are just a few things that West Virginia was first at. How many of these did you already know about?
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That happened on July 1, 1921.

We of course seceded from Virginia and officially became a state on June 20, 1863.

That honor went to Georgeann Wells in 1984.


That happened in Philippi, W.Va.

The first brick road in America was Summers Street in Charleston. Engineer Mordicai Levi paved it in 1870. (Note: this isn't Summer Street).

Minnie Harper Buckingham, of McDowell County, was appointed to fill her husband’s unexpired term in the state House of Delegates in 1928.

It was first celebrated at Andrews Church in Grafton on May 10, 1908.

That happened on October 14, 1947.

The golf course is located in White Sulphur Springs.

Marian McQuade of Oak Hill started the holiday.

It got its start with Mail Pouch tobacco ads on the sides of barns and businesses.
What else was West Virginia first at?