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Which one of the following once owned most of the land in the present Eastern Panhandle?
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This Ohio River county was named for the governor of Virginia who owned most of the land there.
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Who led the first permanent settlement of Charleston?
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The barracks of this fort in Mineral County comprise the only known military structure still standing in present-day West Virginia from the French & Indian War period.
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Fort Maidstone, the northernmost of our French & Indian War fortifications, was built in which present-day county?
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Robert Files and David Tygart were among the first White settlers of this county.
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Who is considered the founder of Morgantown?
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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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Nonhelema, known by settlers as the "Grenadier Squaw," was the sister of which Indian leader?
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Tories were settlers who did what?
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