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  2. National Register of Historic Places listings in West Virginia

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    There are listings in every one of West Virginia's 55 counties. Listings range from prehistoric sites such as Grave Creek Mound, to Cool Spring Farm in the state's eastern panhandle, one of the state's first homesteads, to relatively newer, yet still historical, residences and commercial districts.

  3. Category : Farms on the National Register of Historic Places ...

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    The Manor (West Virginia) Maplewood (Pliny, West Virginia) James Mason House and Farm; May–Kraus Farm; Gen. John McCausland House; McClung's Price Place; The Meadows (Moorefield, West Virginia) Media Farm; Miller Tavern and Farm; Miller–Pence Farm

  4. A. W. Gribble Farm - Wikipedia

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    A. W. Gribble Farm, also known as Deerwood Farm, is a historic house and farm located near Pisgah, Preston County, West Virginia. The house was built about 1842, and is a 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-story, five-bay, side-gabled, I house. It is built from square cut, regular coursed sandstone and measures 24 feet by 36 feet.

  5. Tobacco in the American colonies - Wikipedia

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    Lorenz, Stacy L. " 'To Do Justice to His Majesty, the Merchant and the Planter': Governor William Gooch and the Virginia Tobacco Inspection Act of 1730" Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 108 (2000): 345–392. online; McCusker, John J., and Russell R. Menard. The Economy of British America, 1607–1789 (University of North Carolina ...

  6. Welcome to Beautiful Parkersburg, West Virginia - The ...

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    West Virginia Circuit Judge George Hill ordered them to stop shredding and hand over the remaining papers. One of the items slated for destruction revealed that the department’s early calculations had actually set the safety limit for C8 closer to 1 part per billion—not 150 parts per billion, the figure announced at the Parkersburg meeting.

  7. Tobacco barn - Wikipedia

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    The barns have declined with the tobacco industry in general, and U.S. States such as Maryland actively discourage tobacco farming. [1] When the US tobacco industry was at its height, tobacco barns were found everywhere the crop was grown. Tobacco barns were as unique as each area in which they were erected, and there is no one design that can ...

  8. Cultivation of tobacco - Wikipedia

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    The production of Flue-Cured Virginia (FCV) tobacco is about 300 million kg from an area of 0.20 M ha while 450 M kg non-FCV tobacco is produced from an area of 0.25 M ha. In the global scenario, Indian tobacco accounts for 10% of the area and 9% of the total production.

  9. Liggett and Myers Tobacco Company (Huntington, West Virginia)

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    Liggett and Myers Tobacco Company is a historic factory building located at Huntington, Cabell County, West Virginia, USA. The original building was constructed in 1917 and is a four-story, red brick, Commercial Style warehouse building, measuring 140 by 80 feet (43 by 24 m). At the rear of the building is an addition built in 1920.