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Frontier

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Who led the first permanent settlement of Charleston?
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This last colonial governor of Virginia ordered the attack that became the Battle of Point Pleasant.
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Fort Buttermilk was built in 1756 to help protect settlers near this town.
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Two Revolutionary War battles occurred at this Wheeling fort.
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Construction of this fort marked the beginning of the city of Charleston?
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James Neal is often considered the founder of this city.
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Who accompanied George Washington on his disastrous mission to warn the French at the beginning of the French & Indian War and later served as a guide for Gen. Braddock in his disastrous campaign early in the war?
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Nonhelema, known by settlers as the "Grenadier Squaw," was the sister of which Indian leader?
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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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Tu-Endie-Wei State Park commemorates what frontier event?
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