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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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Which industry was associated with Vestal's Bloomery in Jefferson County?
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In 1777, this settler led an ambush in present-day Marshall County that murdered 21 Indians.
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Who is considered the founder of Morgantown?
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This Brooke County settler published the earliest known account of the Lewis & Clark Expedition.
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During the French & Indian War, what settler was famously captured by Shawnee and, after living with them, courageously escaped on foot along the Kanawha and New rivers?
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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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Who is generally considered the founder of Martinsburg?
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Vandalia was a failed attempt at what?
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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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