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The Seneca Trail generally follows the route of which present West Virginia road?
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About 1788, where did Daniel Boone first settle in present-day West Virginia?
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How were many soldiers paid for their service in the French & Indian War?
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What was the goal of Andrew Lewis's disastrous Sandy Creek Expedition in 1756?
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Who are the earliest known White settlers of the Greenbrier Valley?
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This Brooke County settler published the earliest known account of the Lewis & Clark Expedition.
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What Wheeling socialite publicly claimed that Betty Zane's heroic actions at the 1782 Battle of Fort Henry never occurred?
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Who is generally considered the founder of Charles Town?
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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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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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