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From about 1764 to 1767, brothers John and Samuel Pringle lived in the hollowed cavity of what type of tree?
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Fort Buttermilk was built in 1756 to help protect settlers near this town.
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This fort was built in present Summers County in 1774.
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What finally ended threats to present-day West Virginia during the French & Indian War?
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This Brooke County settler published the earliest known account of the Lewis & Clark Expedition.
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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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Tu-Endie-Wei State Park commemorates what frontier event?
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Vandalia was a failed attempt at what?
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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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George Washington was this age when he became a surveyor in what is now West Virginia?
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