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This enslaved man heroically helped defend Fort Donnally in the Greenbrier Valley during an attack by Shawnee Indians in 1778.
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Which of the following is supposed to be the oldest church building west of the Allegheny Mountains?
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What mineral springs did George Washington visit for the first time at age 16?
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Indian leader Captain Bull settled in this present-day West Virginia county in the late 1760s.
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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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Nonhelema, known by settlers as the "Grenadier Squaw," was the sister of which Indian leader?
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From which direction did most Indian attacks occur during the frontier period?
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Who is generally considered the founder of Martinsburg?
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George Washington was this age when he became a surveyor in what is now West Virginia?
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