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...that the Dismal Swamp Canal which runs along the edge of the Great Dismal Swamp in Virginia and North Carolina is the oldest continually operating man-made canal in the United States?
... that painter William D. Washington became the first faculty member of the Virginia Military Institute to die during his tenure there?
... that the Virginia Civil Rights Memorial commemorates the 1951 protests started by 16-year-old Barbara Johns which helped bring about school desegregation in Virginia?
...that the Cherry Hill Farmhouse in Falls Church, appears in the works of American poet James Whitcomb Riley?

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