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This enslaved man heroically helped defend Fort Donnally in the Greenbrier Valley during an attack by Shawnee Indians in 1778.
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Which one of the following once owned most of the land in the present Eastern Panhandle?
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The Seneca Trail generally follows the route of which present West Virginia road?
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Which one of the following was NOT one of West Virginia's first settlers?
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The Eckerlin brothers were among the first White settlers of this county?
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Who is considered the founder of Wheeling
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Which of the following was NOT typically considered to be part of a frontier fort?
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This Delaware chief led two deadly attacks on forts in present-day Pendleton County during the French & Indian War.
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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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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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