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This enslaved man heroically helped defend Fort Donnally in the Greenbrier Valley during an attack by Shawnee Indians in 1778.
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Which industry was associated with Vestal's Bloomery in Jefferson County?
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Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin, as well as the southwest corner of Pennsylvania and most of present West Virginia was carved from this Virginia county.
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After her husband's death at the 1774 Battle of Point Pleasant, this woman became a frontier scout, relaying messages among forts?
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Which early settler did Thomas Jefferson mistakenly blame for the murder of Chief Logan's family?
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Pontiac started his rebellion against European-American settlements as a result of what event?
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Who is generally considered the founder of Martinsburg?
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George Washington was this age when he became a surveyor in what is now West Virginia?
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James Madison, the "father of the constitution" and future fourth president, married his wife, Dolley Payne, in the Jefferson County home of this person.
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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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