Working Toward the Golden Horseshoe Page 1 DIY Research Version

  

20 question test without answers:

About the image of the Historical Chronology of West Virginia, 1606-1941:

1. Who was the first person to discover the New River?
2. What was the purpose of the 1671 expedition to the Falls of Great Kanawha?
3. What was the name of the large tract of land in Virginia that was patented in 1681?
4. When was the capital of Virginia changed from Jamestown to Williamsburg?
5. Who were the "Knights of the Golden Horseshoe"?
6. What was the name of the first permanent settlement in West Virginia?
7. What was the purpose of the 1735-36 expedition led by William Mayo and Thomas Savage?
8. Who was the first person to build a tavern at Smith's Tavern?
9. Where was the first coal discovered in West Virginia?
10. What was the name of the treaty that ceded all territory between the Alleghanies and the Ohio to the English in 1744?
11. Who was the first person to place the Fairfax Stone?
12. When did Lord Fairfax settle permanently in Virginia?
13. Who was the first person to arrive at "The Hole", (later Harper's Ferry)?
14. Who was the first person to begin surveying land in Western Virginia for Lord Fairfax?
15. What were the "famed Warm Springs at Bath" that George Washington visited in 1748?
16. Who were the first people to establish a settlement on the Greenbrier River?
17. What was the name of the oldest recorded settlement on the western waters?
18. What was the purpose of the 1745-47 expedition led by Robert Harper?
19. What was the name of the first Presbyterian church erected in West Virginia?
20. What was the name of the first ironworks established in West Virginia?