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About 1788, where did Daniel Boone first settle in present-day West Virginia?
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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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Who is considered the founder of Wheeling
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James Neal is often considered the founder of this city.
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This Seneca Indian's military efforts led to the near complete abandonment of the Greenbrier and Monongahela valleys.
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What Wheeling socialite publicly claimed that Betty Zane's heroic actions at the 1782 Battle of Fort Henry never occurred?
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In what county was Tackett's Fort located?
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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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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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