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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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When the Revolutionary War began, some of the first militia troops arrived in Massachusetts from this place.
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Braddock's Road is associated with this war.
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This Clarksburg printer wrote the classic 1831 book Chronicles of Border Warfare.
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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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Shawnee Chief Cornstalk and his son Elinipsico were murdered at this Point Pleasant fort in 1777.
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From which direction did most Indian attacks occur during the frontier period?
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The murder of this person's family sent him on a violent spree in which he killed Tegunteh, who was peacefully negotiating the 1789 Treaty of Fort Harmar. Afterward, he became a fugitive from the law.
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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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