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What frontiersman led the band that killed members of Chief Logan's family in 1774?
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From about 1764 to 1767, brothers John and Samuel Pringle lived in the hollowed cavity of what type of tree?
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Which Indian tribe fought at the 1774 Battle of Point Pleasant?
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This Clarksburg printer wrote the classic 1831 book Chronicles of Border Warfare.
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Fort Buttermilk was built in 1756 to help protect settlers near this town.
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Which one of the following forts was NOT built between the location of George Washington's headquarters at Fort Loudoun and Cumberland, Maryland?
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Two Revolutionary War battles occurred at this Wheeling fort.
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Which one of the following was NOT a cause of the French & Indian War?
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Who are the earliest known White settlers of the Greenbrier Valley?
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This Randolph County settler was held captive by Shawnees from 1791 to 1794.
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