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Which industry was associated with Vestal's Bloomery in Jefferson County?
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This fort was built in present Summers County in 1774.
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Fort Maidstone, the northernmost of our French & Indian War fortifications, was built in which present-day county?
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What was the goal of Andrew Lewis's disastrous Sandy Creek Expedition in 1756?
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Of these Revolutionary War generals from the Eastern Panhandle, which one was NOT dismissed from his commission during the Revolutionary War?
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During the French & Indian War, what settler was famously captured by Shawnee and, after living with them, courageously escaped on foot along the Kanawha and New rivers?
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When Europeans first arrived, which Indian confederacy laid claim to most of what is now West Virginia?
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This Delaware chief led two deadly attacks on forts in present-day Pendleton County during the French & Indian War.
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Tu-Endie-Wei State Park commemorates what frontier event?
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Vandalia was a failed attempt at what?
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