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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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Which Indian tribe fought at the 1774 Battle of Point Pleasant?
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This Greenbrier County fort builder served as a guide and chief scout for Andrew Lewis on the march to the Battle of Point Pleasant.
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During the French & Indian War, Delaware and Shawnee Indians attacked these two forts in present-day Pendleton County within days in 1758?
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Of which town is Joseph Tomlinson considered the founder?
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Tories were settlers who did 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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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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