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This Ohio River county was named for the governor of Virginia who owned most of the land there.
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This last colonial governor of Virginia ordered the attack that became the Battle of Point Pleasant.
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This fort was built in present Summers County in 1774.
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"Forting" on the frontier referred to this.
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Which of the following was NOT among the earliest settlers of the Greenbrier Valley?
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During the French & Indian War, what settler was famously captured by Shawnee and, after living with them, courageously escaped on foot along the Kanawha and New rivers?
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This Randolph County settler was held captive by Shawnees from 1791 to 1794.
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Two West Virginia counties are named for this Indian leader of the 1700s.
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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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