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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 Indian tribe fought at the 1774 Battle of Point Pleasant?
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Which daughter of Shawnee chief Cornstalk was married to the renegade European-American Boling Baker?
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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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This Ohio River county was named for the governor of Virginia who owned most of the land there.
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Who led the first permanent settlement of Charleston?
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Point Pleasant was the only battle of this 1774 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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Construction of this fort marked the beginning of the city of Charleston?
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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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