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The Washington Family

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What West Virginia town was established by George Washington's brother?
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As a colonel in the Virginia Regiment during the French and Indian War, what was George Washington's principal plan for protecting settlers on the western Virginia frontier?
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What future First Lady of the United States was married in George Steptoe Washington's Harewood mansion, located near Charles Town?
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George Washington's bathtub may be viewed here?
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In which West Virginia county are more Washington family descendants buried than in any other place in America?
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George Washington acquired his first land at which of these places?
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Which one of the following forts was NOT built between the location of George Washington's headquarters at Fort Loudoun and Cumberland, Maryland?
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Who hired a teenage George Washington to survey much of West Virginia's Eastern Panhandle?
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In 1861, during the Civil War, in which county was John Augustine Washington, an aide to Robert E. Lee and great-great-grandnephew of George Washington, killed?
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A pioneering prototype of this mode of transportation was made in Wheeling in 1816 and named for George Washington.
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