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Which industry was associated with Vestal's Bloomery in Jefferson County?
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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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Which one of the following was NOT a cause of the French & Indian War?
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Which one of the following was NOT an early land company in present-day West Virginia?
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Which of the following was NOT a treaty in which Indians gave away their claims to land in present West Virginia?
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This Delaware chief led two deadly attacks on forts in present-day Pendleton County during the French & Indian War.
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Two West Virginia counties are named for this Indian leader of the 1700s.
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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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George Washington was this age when he became a surveyor in what is now West Virginia?
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This county, which once included Hancock, is considered West Virginia's "lost county" because it was later eliminated from the map?
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