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Braddock's Road is associated with this war.
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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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Fort Buttermilk was built in 1756 to help protect settlers near this town.
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Fort Pearsall was built during the French & Indian War to protect settlers around this town.
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This Virginia county once included most of present-day northern West Virginia.
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Which of the following was NOT a treaty in which Indians gave away their claims to land in present West Virginia?
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Which one of the following was NOT considered an "Indian war" from the 1700s?
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Tories were settlers who did what?
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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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By the time of his death in 1799, George Washington owned more land along these two rivers than anywhere else in the world.
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