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Which industry was associated with Vestal's Bloomery in Jefferson County?
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What mineral springs did George Washington visit for the first time at age 16?
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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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Braddock's Road is associated with this war.
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Where was the largest battle in Virginia during the French & Indian War?
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What was the goal of Andrew Lewis's disastrous Sandy Creek Expedition in 1756?
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Who is considered the founder of Wheeling
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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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Which one of the following counties did NOT experience an uprising in response to the 1794 Whiskey Rebellion?
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