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| A sign marking the trail into the woods on the median of US Highway 301 where the Garrett Farm once stood. It was here that on April 26, 1865, 12 days after Lincoln's assaination, that John Wilkes Booth was finaly cornered in a barn and was shot and killed. |
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Website : www.virginia.gov |
Capital
: Richmond |
Highest
point : Mount
Rogers, 5,729 feet |
Area : 42,769 square miles,
35th largest state. |
Population : 7,078,515
(2000 Census) |
Motto
: Sic
semper tyannis (Thus always to tyrants)
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Admitted to
Union : June
25, 1788 |
State
Song : "Carry Me Back to Old Virginia" |
State Bird : Cardinal
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State Flower : Flowering Dogwood
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State Tree : Flowering Dogwood
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