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Which West Virginia county is the oldest?
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Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin, as well as the southwest corner of Pennsylvania and most of present West Virginia was carved from this Virginia county.
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When the Revolutionary War began, some of the first militia troops arrived in Massachusetts from this place.
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This last colonial governor of Virginia ordered the attack that became the Battle of Point Pleasant.
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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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During the French & Indian War, Delaware and Shawnee Indians attacked these two forts in present-day Pendleton County within days in 1758?
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What was the goal of Andrew Lewis's disastrous Sandy Creek Expedition in 1756?
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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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George Washington was this age when he became a surveyor in what is now West Virginia?
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