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Frontier

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Which Indian tribe fought at the 1774 Battle of Point Pleasant?
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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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Braddock's Road is associated with this war.
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Which early settler did Thomas Jefferson mistakenly blame for the murder of Chief Logan's family?
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What marker rests at the corner of present Grant, Preston, and Tucker counties?
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Who is considered the founder of Wheeling
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This Delaware chief led two deadly attacks on forts in present-day Pendleton County during the French & Indian War.
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Tu-Endie-Wei State Park commemorates what frontier event?
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More indirect descendants of George Washington are buried in this county than any other in the nation?
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James Madison, the "father of the constitution" and future fourth president, married his wife, Dolley Payne, in the Jefferson County home of this person.
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