Kanawha Riflemen

The congregation of the African Zion Baptist Church formally organized for the black community of Malden.

Lemuel Chenoweth designed and built Philippi's covered bridge.

Buckhannon was chartered

Archibald Campbell graduated from Bethany College

James Watson organized the Montana Mining Company

Martin Delany published The Condition, Elevation, Emigration, And Destiny of the Colored People of the United States

William Edwards opened his first coal mines on Paint Creek

Thomas Moore Jackson was born

Jacob Jackson was admitted to the bar

Anna Maria Reeves married Granville E. Jarvis

La Belle Ironworks was founded

Robert E. Lee became superintendent of West Point

Weston's first bank opened its doors

Thomas Lake Harris and James L. Scott jointly led the Mountain Cove Spiritualist community

The Wheeling Intelligencer was established

The Ritchie Mines was discovered by Frederick Lemon

Shinnston was chartered as a town by the General Assembly

David Strother contributed 20 illustrations to John Pendleton Kennedy's Swallow Barn: A Sojourn in the Old Dominion

George Summers was elected circuit judge of Kanawha County

Grafton emerged as a city

A major flood hit Virginius Island

James O Watson joined with Francis H. Pierpont to open a mine in Fairmont

Wheeling had a library

The Wheeling Intelligencer began

The Potomac River flooded

The Shenandoah River flooded

The B&O leased the Northwestern Virginia Railroad

A troupe presented "Uncle Tom's Cabin" at The Atheneum

Belle Boyd was sent to Mount Washington School in Baltimore

Archibald Campbell moved to Wheeling

William Edwards erected the first cannel coal oil works

Thomas English moved from Logan County to Tazewell, Virginia

Glenville was incorporated

Grafton was chartered

Hamilton Hatter was born in Jefferson County

Andrew Gardner Jackson was born

Daniel Lucas graduated from University of Virginia

Mannington was chartered as a town by the Virginia legislature

The city of Mason was incorporated

Henry Mathews graduated from University of Virginia

The Mount de Chantal Visitation Academy moved to a new building

Oglebay Park Mansion Museum property was purchased by George W. Smith

Piedmont was chartered

Francis Pierpont helped found the Fairmont Male and Female Seminary.

A B&O station was located at Cairo

The Walton post office moved to Droddyville

The first church was built in the St. Joseph Settlement

William Stevenson was elected a member of the Pennsylvania legislature

Ralph Swinburn was ordained a Baptist minister

Wheeling Hospital moved to the Michael Sweeney Mansion

The Intelligencer was acquired by Archibald Campbell

Kanawha Riflemen had a strength of 75 to 100 men