Martinsburg Roundhouse

B&O line completed to Cumberland

Jacob Blair began to study law under his uncle John Jay Jackson, Sr.

Western Virginians met in Clarksburg and Lewisburg and demanded a Constitutional Convention

Henry Gassaway Davis became brakeman for the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad

Joseph Diss Debar came to the U.S.

William Edwards graduated from Williams College

John Gallaher became a state senator

Chester Hubbard married Sarah Pallister

John Jay Jackson Sr commanded a brigade in the Virginia militia

Stonewall Jackson entered West Point

Joseph Lightburn sought admission to West Point

Fairmont became county seat at creation of Marion County

The B&O Railroad arrived in Mineral County

The General Assembly chartered three academies in Pocahontas County for the preparation of students for the University of Virginia, at Green Bank, Hillsboro, and Huntersville

William Rosecrans graduated from West Point

Wayne was founded as a town

Kellian Whaley moved to Wayne County

There were 250 churches in West Virginia

Capt. John M. Burns established a sawmill at Burnsville

Jefferson and Berkeley confirmed as West Virginia by U.S. Congress

Henry Gassaway Davis received charter to build the West Virginia Central and Pittsburgh Railway

Dickinson-Shrewsbury partnership dissolved by the courts after partners died

Private school for black children, in Parkersburg, was converted to a public school

J. N. Boyd began publication of Vedette in Fairmont

Three men were hanged on the "hanging tree" at Fort Boreman

Freedmen's Bureau began operation in West Virginia

Grantsville was laid out

Grant County was formed from Hardy County

Morris Harvey and brother-in-law received a land grant from West Virginia of 1,000 acres on the west side of New River

The Radical-dominated legislature enacted the Voters' Registration Law

John Joseph Kain was ordained to the priesthood for the Diocese of Richmond

The Buckhannon home of George Latham was purchased

Elizabethtown and Moundsville were consolidated under Moundsville

Free schools were established in Moundsville

The multiflora rose was introduced to the eastern U.S. as rootstock for ornamental roses

The North Bend superintendent's residence was built by Christopher Douglas

Samuel Price became a director of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad.

George Lemon died

Sumner School became West Virginia's earliest black public school

H.M. Calhoun was born

Samuel W. Starks was born in Charleston

Sumner School became a part of the segregated public school system

Ceredo was incorporated

The West Virginia Central & Pittsburg Railway was chartered under the name of the Potomac & Piedmont Coal & Railroad Company

Archibald Campbell left the Wheeling Intelligencer

William H. Davis became a teacher for Malden’s Black children

The great railroad strike originated among B&O workers in Martinsburg

The national railroad strike began in Martinsburg

Romeo Freer and John Kenna traveled West Virginia urging voters to select Charleston as the state capital

Newton Diehl Baker moved to Cleveland

Elkins became the county seat of Randolph County, replacing Beverly

William Blenko returned to America to try to set up shop in Point Marion, PA

Lumber mill relocation to Wirt County

West Virginia Pulp & Paper purchased land along Greenbrier River, later Cass

Chamber of Commerce established in Charleston

Charleston began new hospital on Cemetery Hill

West Virginia State Society of the DAR was organized

William Dawson married his second wife Maude Brown

Alexander Donaghho died in Parkersburg

Huntington's Fesenmeier Brewery was opened

The Sacred Heart Church of Spring Dale was built

Lily Jackson helped found the Daughters of American Pioneers

The Low Moor Iron Company employed James Kay to open the Kaymoor mines near Fayettesville

Kaymoor became an industrial village

Teepi Kendrick moved to Morgantown

Rand McNally produced a new map of West Virginia

The first execution occurred at the Moundsville State Penitentiary

Reynolds Memorial Hospital was founded by B. M. Spurr

Hu Maxwell wrote a history of Barbour County

Wheeling's McLure Hotel was remodeled to have 225 rooms

A daily edition Morgantown Evening Post began publication

Dwight Morrow received his law degree from Columbia University

Robert Hornor's son began the Parkersburg Daily Sentinel.

Elbert Hubbard published A Message to Garcia pamphlet concerning Andrew Rowan's trip to Cuba

Granville Davisson Hall wrote Daughter of the Elm

The West Virginia Northern railroad began as a coal hauler

Anne Spencer graduated from Virginia Theological Seminary in Lynchburg, Virginia

The USS Huntington was authorized by Congress

The legislature authorized the establishment of Miners Hospital No. One in Welch

The Capitol Annex was designed

The Industrial Home for Youth opened as the West Virginia Industrial Home For Girls

Lenna Yost married Ellis Asby Yost

The B&O Railroad shops at Martinsburg were designated a National Historic Landmark

Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Martinsburg Shops were designated a National Historic Landmark