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The Seneca Trail generally follows the route of which present West Virginia road?
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Which daughter of Shawnee chief Cornstalk was married to the renegade European-American Boling Baker?
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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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Who led the first permanent settlement of Charleston?
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This last colonial governor of Virginia ordered the attack that became the Battle of Point Pleasant.
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Fort Pearsall was built during the French & Indian War to protect settlers around this town.
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This Randolph County settler was held captive by Shawnees from 1791 to 1794.
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Tories were settlers who did what?
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Vandalia was a failed attempt at what?
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George Washington was this age when he became a surveyor in what is now West Virginia?
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