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Which of the following is supposed to be the oldest church building west of the Allegheny Mountains?
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What marker rests at the corner of present Grant, Preston, and Tucker counties?
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What finally ended threats to present-day West Virginia during the French & Indian War?
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Who are the earliest known White settlers of the Greenbrier Valley?
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Which of the following was NOT among the earliest settlers of the Greenbrier Valley?
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Of which town is Joseph Tomlinson considered the founder?
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This Delaware chief led two deadly attacks on forts in present-day Pendleton County during the French & Indian War.
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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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George Washington was this age when he became a surveyor in what is now West Virginia?
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