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Indian leader Captain Bull settled in this present-day West Virginia county in the late 1760s.
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This Clarksburg printer wrote the classic 1831 book Chronicles of Border Warfare.
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"Forting" on the frontier referred to this.
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What was the goal of Andrew Lewis's disastrous Sandy Creek Expedition in 1756?
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Who is considered the founder of Morgantown?
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This Brooke County settler published the earliest known account of the Lewis & Clark Expedition.
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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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Who bought up much of the area in and around Charleston in the late 1700s from John Dickinson and George Clendenin?
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By the time of his death in 1799, George Washington owned more land along these two rivers than anywhere else in the world.
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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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