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Which one of the following once owned most of the land in the present Eastern Panhandle?
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From about 1764 to 1767, brothers John and Samuel Pringle lived in the hollowed cavity of what type of tree?
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This last colonial governor of Virginia ordered the attack that became the Battle of Point Pleasant.
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Two Revolutionary War battles occurred at this Wheeling fort.
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Shawnee Chief Cornstalk and his son Elinipsico were murdered at this Point Pleasant fort in 1777.
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What finally ended threats to present-day West Virginia during the French & Indian War?
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Of which town is Joseph Tomlinson considered the founder?
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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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This Overhill Cherokee leader fought on the side of the British during the French & Indian War.
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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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