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Which one of the following once owned most of the land in the present Eastern Panhandle?
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Which industry was associated with Vestal's Bloomery in Jefferson County?
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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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At the end of the French & Indian War, which one of the following was NOT attacked during Pontiac's Rebellion?
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Who are the earliest known White settlers of the Greenbrier Valley?
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Tories were settlers who did what?
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The murder of this person's family sent him on a violent spree in which he killed Tegunteh, who was peacefully negotiating the 1789 Treaty of Fort Harmar. Afterward, he became a fugitive from the law.
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Which one of the following counties did NOT experience an uprising in response to the 1794 Whiskey Rebellion?
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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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