Mountain Boy

Schools for black children were being built in 18 communities in West Virginia

A construction bid for Clarksburg School, an elementary black school, was accepted

A springhouse was built at Barger Springs (Summers County)

Jacob Blair was appointed minister to Costa Rica

The new Harpers Ferry bridge was completed

Thayer sold Ceredo to mortgage holder, Charles B. Hoard

Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad was created

Gen. William C. Wickham became president of the C&O Railroad

The state purchased the institution now known as Fairmont State University

Vedette changed name to the West Virginian

Freedmen's Bureau ceased operation in West Virginia

President Grant appointed Nathan Goff Jr. U.S. district attorney for West Virginia

Catherine Jackson White purchased Jackson's Mill

John Kenna finished his studies at St. Vincents Academy in Wheeling

Lincoln County's borders changed

The Agricultural College of West Virginia was renamed West Virginia University at the recommendation of Alexander Martin

Dr. H. Stieren of St. Louis established a bromine factory in Mason County

The Grand Army of the Republic established Decoration Day, predecessor to Memorial Day

The legislature created two public school districts in Morgantown, white and black

Anna Maria Jarvis organized Mothers' Friendship Day celebration

All refineries except one founded by Johnson Newlon Camden closed due to his partnership with Standard Oil Trust

George Peterkin graduated from the Theological Seminary of Virginia.

Drilling for oil and gas began in Roane County

William Rosecrans served as minister to Mexico

John Cunningham acquired the Phillip R. Thompson property, which he had incorporated and named Kanawha City

Senator Peter Van Winkle cast the next-to-last vote and only Republican vote that saved President Andrew Johnson from being removed on impeachment charges

Fred E. Brooks was born

Reported 200 patients were being cared for at Weston State Hospital

Winfield was incorporated

State officials boarded the Mountain Boy to move the capital from Wheeling to Charleston

Joseph Beury shipped the first coal from the New River Coalfield

The Chesapeake & Ohio Railway arrived on the south side of Kanawha River in Charleston

Chesapeake & Ohio Railway arrived on south side of Kanawha River

Charles B. Webb started the weekly Kanawha Chronicle

C&O forced into default from national depression

The legislative act to esbablish a "branch state normal school" in the Mercer County community of Concord was amended and stipulated that the school would be transferred to Princeton if arrangements for land and a building were not completed within one year

William Dawson moved to Kingwood

Marmaduke Dent received M.A. from WVU

Three acres of property was donated to the state and ready for use in the fall by Glenville State College

East Liverpool, Ohio, raised $5,000 for the Laughlins to start a pottery to make white ware

The House of Delegates had 65 delegates

Legislature exempted certain businesses from taxes because of the economic panic

German Jews arrived in Charleston and formed a congregation

Other mills were destroyed by floods on the Jug of the Middle Island Creek

Kanawha Valley Bank was the only bank in Charleston to survive the financial panic

The first West Virginia atlas appeared

The eastern and western section of the C&O main line were joined near Hawks Nest

A city waterworks was established in Martinsburg

Natural gas was put in many of downtown buildings in Martinsburg

The Martinsburg & Potomac railroad came to Martinsburg from Williamsport, MD

Sandy Mason was born in Charleston

The C&O Railroad was completed opening the New River Gorge to the coal and timber industry

The Pardee & Curtin Lumber Company was formed.

Daniel Purinton received a B.A. degree from WVU

An explosion caused the Ritchie Mines to be closed

The C&O was completed at Thurmond

William Thurmond was commissioned to survey land on the north side of New River

Isaiah Welch came to McDowell County to evaluate natural resources

Isaiah Welch surveyed the mineral reserves of the Pocahontas No. 3 coal seam

The Woodburn Seminary at WVU burned

The Western Maryland Railway extended to the C&O Canal

Separate rooms for black patients were added at Weston State Hospital

Archibald Campbell repurchased the Wheeling Intelligencer

Lilly Freer died in Nicaragua

Date of the first official burial at Spring Hill

The name of the Winchester Female Institute was changed to Broaddus Female College (now part of Alderson Broaddus University)

Johnson Camden and his partners quietly sold to Rockefeller's Standard Oil

Marmaduke Dent was admitted to the bar

Stephen Elkins married Hallie Davis Elkins

Aretas Fleming left the House of Delegates

Remains from the Foreman party were transferred to Mount Roase Cemetery

Oil was first struck in Glenville

The Grange had 20,000 lodges and 800,000 members in the country

The Lewisburg Academy reopened after closing during the Civil War

Courthouse in Hamlin was constructed

The Pennsboro & Harrisville Railroad was built

The House of Delegates impeached Treasurer John Burdett

The American Ancient Order of Hibernians started a division in Wheeling

Harriet Jones graduated from the Women's Medical College of Baltimore

Other mills were destroyed by floods on the Jug of the Middle Island Creek

James Kay married Julia Ballintyne

Wheeling became known as the Nail City because of La Belle Ironworks

The legislature was required to met biennially

President Alexander Martin left WVU

A bill providing for better ventilation in the mines had been first introduced in legislature

The Morrow family moved to Pittsburgh

Johnson Newlon Camden joined John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Trust

The Sentinel was founded as the Parkersburg Weekly Sentinel by Robert Hornor.

Reported 14 baptisms at St. John's Chapel

The first band sawmill began operation in West Virginia

Nathan Scott moved to Wheeling

Alexander Wade was elected Monongalia County school superintendent

Booker T. Washington graduated from Hampton Institute

Cassville was chartered

Ernest T. Weir was born

I.C. White earned a masters degree at WVU

Woodlawn Cemetery began as a private family burial ground

Parents of Walter Aegerter, Gottfried and Marianna Dubach Aegerter, moved to Helvetia

Sumner School in Parkersburg added high school courses to its curriculum for black students.

Annie Bartlett married Leonidas Bartlett

Belle Boyd married her third husband Nathaniel High

Flat Top Coal Company established its headquarters in Bramwell

The state song "The West Virginia Hills" written by Ellen Ruddell was put to music by Henry Everett Engle

The Hale House burned down in Charleston

The move of the capital to Charleston occurred

Jacob Beeson Jackson left office as governor of West Virginia

Frances Benjamin Johnston ended her studies in Paris at the Academie Julian

One of the state's earliest telephone systems was installed in Weston

John H. Lilly planted two or three oak trees that are still standing today

John McGraw left as Taylor County prosecuting attorney

The Berkeley Castle was built as a summer cottage

The former state capital was used for the Ohio County Courthouse

Ohio Valley Trades and Labor Assembly moved its offices to Wheeling

Christopher Payne established the West Virginia Enterprise.

A new owner resumed mining at Ritchie Mines

The Ruffner Hotel was built in Charleston

The "West Virginia Mission" was organized under the Ohio conference

Morris Shawkey entered business college

I.C. White wrote an article in Science asserting his rediscovery of the anticlinal theory in the location of oil and gas

Woodlawn was incorporated as a public cemetery