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Lewis Washington, a distant relative of George Washington, played a role in what historic event?
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Which one of the following was the primary reason George Washington led an expedition to Point Pleasant in 1770?
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As a colonel in the Virginia Regiment during the French and Indian War, what was George Washington's principal plan for protecting settlers on the western Virginia frontier?
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What future First Lady of the United States was married in George Steptoe Washington's Harewood mansion, located near Charles Town?
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Which of George Washington's relatives owned land in the present Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia?
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By the time of his death in 1799, George Washington owned more land along these two rivers than anywhere else in the world.
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Who hired a teenage George Washington to survey much of West Virginia's Eastern Panhandle?
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In 1861, during the Civil War, in which county was John Augustine Washington, an aide to Robert E. Lee and great-great-grandnephew of George Washington, killed?
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During this uprising, a sword given to George Washington by Frederick the Great was temporarily captured.
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A pioneering prototype of this mode of transportation was made in Wheeling in 1816 and named for George Washington.
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