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The Seneca Trail generally follows the route of which present West Virginia road?
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After her husband's death at the 1774 Battle of Point Pleasant, this woman became a frontier scout, relaying messages among forts?
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Hugh Stephenson formed this military unit in response to George Washington's call for troops at the beginning of the Revolutionary War.
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The barracks of this fort in Mineral County comprise the only known military structure still standing in present-day West Virginia from the French & Indian War period.
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Fort Pearsall was built during the French & Indian War to protect settlers around this town.
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Who are the earliest known White settlers of the Greenbrier Valley?
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Robert Files and David Tygart were among the first White settlers of this county.
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Who is considered the founder of Morgantown?
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Vandalia was a failed attempt at what?
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George Washington was this age when he became a surveyor in what is now West Virginia?
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