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Which industry was associated with Vestal's Bloomery in Jefferson County?
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The Seneca Trail generally follows the route of which present West Virginia road?
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Point Pleasant was the only battle of this 1774 war.
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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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Which one of the following was NOT one of West Virginia's first settlers?
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Who accompanied George Washington on his disastrous mission to warn the French at the beginning of the French & Indian War and later served as a guide for Gen. Braddock in his disastrous campaign early in the war?
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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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What Wheeling socialite publicly claimed that Betty Zane's heroic actions at the 1782 Battle of Fort Henry never occurred?
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George Washington was this age when he became a surveyor in what is now West Virginia?
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