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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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Fort Maidstone, the northernmost of our French & Indian War fortifications, was built in which present-day county?
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Shawnee Chief Cornstalk and his son Elinipsico were murdered at this Point Pleasant fort in 1777.
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This Virginia county once included most of present-day northern West Virginia.
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Who is considered the founder of Wheeling
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This Harrison County congressman was President James Madison's brother-in-law and one of the first government officials to press for greater rights for Western Virginia.
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Two West Virginia counties are named for this Indian leader of the 1700s.
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Who bought up much of the area in and around Charleston in the late 1700s from John Dickinson and George Clendenin?
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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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In what county was Tackett's Fort located?
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