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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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What marker rests at the corner of present Grant, Preston, and Tucker counties?
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Fort Maidstone, the northernmost of our French & Indian War fortifications, was built in which present-day county?
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What was the goal of Andrew Lewis's disastrous Sandy Creek Expedition in 1756?
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This Brooke County settler published the earliest known account of the Lewis & Clark Expedition.
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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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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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