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What frontiersman led the band that killed members of Chief Logan's family in 1774?
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After her husband's death at the 1774 Battle of Point Pleasant, this woman became a frontier scout, relaying messages among forts?
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Shawnee Chief Cornstalk and his son Elinipsico were murdered at this Point Pleasant fort in 1777.
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Which of the following was NOT among the earliest settlers of the Greenbrier Valley?
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Who is considered the founder of Wheeling
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Nonhelema, known by settlers as the "Grenadier Squaw," was the sister of which Indian leader?
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When Europeans first arrived, which Indian confederacy laid claim to most of what is now West Virginia?
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In what county was Tackett's Fort located?
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Vandalia was a failed attempt at what?
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James Madison, the "father of the constitution" and future fourth president, married his wife, Dolley Payne, in the Jefferson County home of this person.
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