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About 1788, where did Daniel Boone first settle in present-day West Virginia?
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Braddock's Road is associated with this war.
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What marker rests at the corner of present Grant, Preston, and Tucker counties?
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Fort Buttermilk was built in 1756 to help protect settlers near this town.
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"Forting" on the frontier referred to this.
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Which of the following was NOT among the earliest settlers of the Greenbrier Valley?
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Who is generally credited with leading the murderous ambush on Chief Logan's family in 1774?
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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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More indirect descendants of George Washington are buried in this county than any other in the nation?
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The murder of this person's family sent him on a violent spree in which he killed Tegunteh, who was peacefully negotiating the 1789 Treaty of Fort Harmar. Afterward, he became a fugitive from the law.
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