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Which West Virginia county is the oldest?
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When the Revolutionary War began, some of the first militia troops arrived in Massachusetts from this place.
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What marker rests at the corner of present Grant, Preston, and Tucker counties?
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The Eckerlin brothers were among the first White settlers of this county?
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Nonhelema, known by settlers as the "Grenadier Squaw," was the sister of which Indian leader?
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Which one of the following did NOT routinely kill Indians out of retaliation for the deaths of family members?
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During the French & Indian War, what settler was famously captured by Shawnee and, after living with them, courageously escaped on foot along the Kanawha and New rivers?
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Which one of the following frontier forts was NOT located in Greenbrier County?
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George Washington was this age when he became a surveyor in what is now West Virginia?
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Which one of the following counties did NOT experience an uprising in response to the 1794 Whiskey Rebellion?
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