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Today in WV History
14 Apr

Woodlawn Cemetery was added to the National Register of Historic Places

Woodlawn Cemetery is a historic cemetery in Fairmont. It is the resting place of many prominent West Virginians, notably including Francis H. Pierpont, who was governor of the unionist Reorganized Government of Virginia during the Civil War era an...

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