1. The Greenbrier hotel and Resort was used as an army hospital during World War One.
2. Contrary to popular belief, tourism is actually West Virginia's leading industry, not coal.
3. Contrary to its name, the New River is actually one of the oldest rivers in the world. Its so
old, that it flows south because it was made before the mountains.
4. The New River Gorge Bridge is the largest steel and arch bridge in the United States. It spans
1,815 feet across the New River Canyon.
5. West Virginia's Memorial Tunnel was the first in the United States to be monitered by television.
6.West Virginia is considered to be the southern most nothern state and the nothern most southern
state.
7. West Virginia, according to the crime index for 1997, has the lowest crime rate in the country.
8. Coal House, located in White Sulphur Springs, is the only residence in the world built entirely
of coal.
9. "Paw-Paws," also called the "West Virginia banana," get their name form Paw Paw, Morgan County.
10. The world's largest shippment of matches, 210,000,000 matches, was shipped from Wheeling to Memphis,
Tennessee.
