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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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