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FILE - A Jan. 26, 2000 file photo shows the exterior of the West Virginia Independence Hall in downtown Wheeling, W.Va. Independence Hall is one of 150 lesser-known destinations The Appalachian Regional Commission is highlighting on a new 13-state map it hopes will get heritage tourists beyond the well-trod battlefields and into "The Home Front." (AP Photo/The Wheeling News Register, Scott McCloskey, File)
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The Belle Boyd House in Martinsburg, W.V. is seen in an undated photo provided by the Berkeley County, W.V., Historical Society. The Appalachian Regional Commission is betting tourists will want to visit the Martinsburg, W.Va., home of the notorious "siren of the South" who used her feminine charms to spy on Union soldiers for the Confederacy. The Belle Boyd House in the Eastern Panhandle is one of 150 lesser-known Civil War destinations the commission is highlighting on a new 13-state map that was released Thursday, April 21, 2011. (AP Photo/Berkeley County, W.V., Historical Society)
