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What frontiersman led the band that killed members of Chief Logan's family in 1774?
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Which industry was associated with Vestal's Bloomery in Jefferson County?
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Hugh Stephenson formed this military unit in response to George Washington's call for troops at the beginning of the Revolutionary War.
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Point Pleasant was the only battle of this 1774 war.
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This Virginia county once included most of present-day northern West Virginia.
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Which one of the following was NOT a cause of the French & Indian War?
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Who is generally credited with leading the murderous ambush on Chief Logan's family in 1774?
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Who is generally considered the "father of Greenbrier County?"
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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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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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