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From about 1764 to 1767, brothers John and Samuel Pringle lived in the hollowed cavity of what type of tree?
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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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This last colonial governor of Virginia ordered the attack that became the Battle of Point Pleasant.
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During the French & Indian War, Delaware and Shawnee Indians attacked these two forts in present-day Pendleton County within days in 1758?
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Who are the earliest known White settlers of the Greenbrier Valley?
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Who is considered the founder of Morgantown?
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This Brooke County settler published the earliest known account of the Lewis & Clark Expedition.
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Of these Revolutionary War generals from the Eastern Panhandle, which one was NOT dismissed from his commission during the Revolutionary War?
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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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This county, which once included Hancock, is considered West Virginia's "lost county" because it was later eliminated from the map?
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