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Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin, as well as the southwest corner of Pennsylvania and most of present West Virginia was carved from this Virginia county.
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How were many soldiers paid for their service in the French & Indian War?
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Indian leader Captain Bull settled in this present-day West Virginia county in the late 1760s.
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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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Which of the following was NOT typically considered to be part of a frontier fort?
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This Brooke County settler published the earliest known account of the Lewis & Clark Expedition.
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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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Vandalia was a failed attempt at what?
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More indirect descendants of George Washington are buried in this county than any other in the nation?
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The murder of this person's family sent him on a violent spree in which he killed Tegunteh, who was peacefully negotiating the 1789 Treaty of Fort Harmar. Afterward, he became a fugitive from the law.
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