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About 1788, where did Daniel Boone first settle in present-day West Virginia?
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Indian leader Captain Bull settled in this present-day West Virginia county in the late 1760s.
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Which one of the following forts was NOT built between the location of George Washington's headquarters at Fort Loudoun and Cumberland, Maryland?
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Shawnee Chief Cornstalk and his son Elinipsico were murdered at this Point Pleasant fort in 1777.
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Which one of the following was NOT a cause of the French & Indian War?
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Which one of the following was NOT one of West Virginia's first settlers?
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Which of the following was NOT among the earliest settlers of the Greenbrier Valley?
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Which of the following was NOT typically considered to be part of a frontier fort?
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Two West Virginia counties are named for this Indian leader of the 1700s.
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Tories were settlers who did what?
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