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Frontier

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Who led the first permanent settlement of Charleston?
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What marker rests at the corner of present Grant, Preston, and Tucker counties?
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Shawnee Chief Cornstalk and his son Elinipsico were murdered at this Point Pleasant fort in 1777.
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Where was Fort Savannah located?
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At the end of the French & Indian War, which one of the following was NOT attacked during Pontiac's Rebellion?
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Which of the following was NOT among the earliest settlers of the Greenbrier Valley?
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Which of the following was NOT typically considered to be part of a frontier fort?
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Two West Virginia counties are named for this Indian leader of the 1700s.
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What Wheeling socialite publicly claimed that Betty Zane's heroic actions at the 1782 Battle of Fort Henry never occurred?
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This county, which once included Hancock, is considered West Virginia's "lost county" because it was later eliminated from the map?
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