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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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This Greenbrier County fort builder served as a guide and chief scout for Andrew Lewis on the march to the Battle of Point Pleasant.
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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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Braddock's Road is associated with this war.
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The barracks of this fort in Mineral County comprise the only known military structure still standing in present-day West Virginia from the French & Indian War period.
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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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When Europeans first arrived, which Indian confederacy laid claim to most of what is now West Virginia?
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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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Which one of the following counties did NOT experience an uprising in response to the 1794 Whiskey Rebellion?
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