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Which daughter of Shawnee chief Cornstalk was married to the renegade European-American Boling Baker?
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About 1788, where did Daniel Boone first settle in present-day West Virginia?
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What marker rests at the corner of present Grant, Preston, and Tucker counties?
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Construction of this fort marked the beginning of the city of Charleston?
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Fort Pearsall was built during the French & Indian War to protect settlers around this town.
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This Harrison County congressman was President James Madison's brother-in-law and one of the first government officials to press for greater rights for Western Virginia.
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Two West Virginia counties are named for this Indian leader of the 1700s.
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Who is generally considered the founder of Martinsburg?
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Tories were settlers who did what?
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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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