Alexander Martin

John D. Sutton gave one acre of ground for a public square in Sutton

Monroe County discontinued the system

Rebecca Davis family moved to Wheeling

The Winchester & Potomac Railroad opened line to Virginius Island at Harpers Ferry

The Virginia Geological Report noted the county's rich coal deposits

Henry Clay Furnace was built on Clay Run

The Henry Clay Furnace was built to supply pig iron to Ices Ferry Ironworks

The city of Ravenswood was laid out

Benjamin Kelley moved to Wheeling

Joseph Martin produced the only gazetteer of Virginia before the state split

The first courthouse in Elizabethtown (present Moundsville) was built

The first public building, a jail, was completed in present Moundsville

A new building was authorized to be built in Wheeling for the Ohio County courthouse

The C&O canal company began to carve through Sorrel Ridge

Samuel Price moved to Wheeling and became prosecuting attorney for Braxton County.

Anne Royall began publishing The Huntress newspaper

Henry Ruffner became president of Washington College (now Washington and Lee University)

William Chapman acquired a small steamboat to tow the Floating Theater upstream

Braxton County was formed

The United Brethren Virginia Conference sent Michael Moses to New Haven

Wheeling was incorporated as a city

The rear wing of Henderson Hall was built

Ephraim G. Squier and Edwin H. Davis documented Salt Rock petroglyphs

Heirs of Matthias Bruen of New York City inherited 200,000 acres of land

The Point Pleasant lead plate left by Celeron was found by boy playing on riverbank

Legislature allowed citizens to petition counties to establish free schools

Joseph Diss Debar moved to Parkersburg

Legislation authorized school commissioners to use local taxes to supplement state aid for the poor

William Edwards traveled to the Amazon River

Salt production in the Kanawha Valley peaked at 3,244,786 bushels

Weston's first newspaper began publishing

Joseph Lightburn enlisted in the army as a private

Ephraim Squier and Edwin Davis conducted a survey of prehistoric mounds in the Mississippi and Ohio River valleys

New Martinsville became the county seat of Wetzel County

Jesse Reno graduated from West Point.

The Christian Minstrel was published introducing a second system using seven shapes to teach singing

Churches in Lewis, Upshur, Barbour, and Gilmer counties merged with those in Braxton County to form the Lewis or Buckhannon Circuit of the United Brethren

The administration building at the School for Deaf and Blind was built

"Ruffner Pamphlet" published in Kanawha County

Gordon Battelle was ordained a Methodist minister

John Carlile was elected to the Virginia Senate

William Edwards was admitted to the New York bar

William Edwards published A Voyage on the River Amazon

John Floyd was elected to the Virginia House of Delegates

The Presbyterian Church was organized in Greenville

The Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike was completed

Cummins Jackson left Jackson's Mill to search for gold in CA

Joseph Johnson was elected again to the House of Delegates

Citizens of Parkersburg, Elizabeth, and Glenville organized the Little Kanawha Navigation Company

Mining began in West Columbia, Mason County

Large flood occurred on the Ohio River

The Staunton to Parkersburg Turnpike was completed

Pocahontas County was formed

A group of Dutch immigrants arrived in Pocahontas County

Samuel Price was again elected to the Virginia legislature as a Whig from Greenbrier Count.

Henry Ruffner published the Address to the People of West Virginia anti-slavery pamphlet

The first Stone & Thomas Department Store opened in Wheeling

The first permanent United Brethren church was built in Sand Hill

The Buckhannon Male and Female Academy was established

A grist mill was built at Valley Falls by Bradshaw and William Whitescarver

Charles Ellet Jr. secured contracts for the Wheeling and Niagara Falls suspension bridges

Two Dutch families settled near the headwaters of the Williams River

Two turnpikes were completed in Wood County

Third Averell raid, the Salem Raid, resulting in partial destruction of Virginia & Tennessee Railroad

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

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

The steamboat Mountain Boy was built on the Monongahela River at Brownsville, Pennsylvania

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

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

The capital was moved from Charleston to 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

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

Sensational articles of the Hatfield-McCoy Feud by Theron C. Crawford published in New York

B&O hauled 31% of nation's Tidewater-bound soft coal

Bluefield incorporated as a town

Bank of Bramwell opened

Matthew Clair graduated from Morgan College in Baltimore

Downtown streets of Clarksburg lit up by electricity

Cribs and booms located to direct logs into Coal River's main channel

Elkins was founded

Jack Glasscock managed Indianapolis Hoosiers baseball team for part of the year

The membership of Post No.1 of General Army of the Republic peaked at 3,161

The first major outbreak of the gypsy moth occurred

The Weekly Advertiser became a daily publication as the Advertiser

Harold Houston graduated from Charleston High School

Kenova founded by L. T. Peck

The West Virginia Bureau of Labor was created by state legislature

Daniel Lucas began serving as a justice of the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals

William MacCorkle left prosecuting attorney's office

I.T. Mann had an apprenticeship at Greenbrier Valley Bank

Hu Maxwell wrote Idyls of the Golden Shore

The first oil was discovered in Monongalia County

Navigable slack water was extended to the Morgantown area

Anticlinal theory of oil and gas location was developed by I. C. White of WVU

The anticlinal theory of oil and gas location was first tested in Mannington

Pennzoil was founded

An iron truss bridge was built over the New River

West Virginia apple production was at 4.5 million bushels

William Nelson Page was president of Gauley Mountain Coal

Charles Ritter moved to West Virginia

Sheltering Arms Hospital saw its first patient

All telephone exchanges in northern West Virginia were interconnected

The legislature renamed the militia the West Virginia National Guard

William Luke opened a pulp mill and incorporated the West Virginia Paper Company

Albert White was appointed as internal revenue agent

Emanuel Wilson advocated antitrust legislation and increased immigration into the state

Major timbering began in Wyoming County

Carrie Edwards married Abraham L. Williams