Claudius Crozet

Alexander Campbell migrated to America

Thomas Campbell drafted The Declaration and Address of the Christian Association of Washington

Samuel Jackson established Jackson's Ironworks at Ices Ferry

John George Jackson had an encounter with North Carolina Congressman Joseph Pierson that ended in a duel

The Old State Road received legislative authorization to collect tolls for maintenance

The Union Baptist Church was founded in Milton

The Literary Fund was established by the General Assembly

The first settlers arrived in Roane County

Henry Ruffner began studies at Lewisburg Academy

John Haymond and Benjamin Wilson began a salt works at Bull Town on the Little Kanawha River

John D. Sutton settled at Granny's Creek, now Sutton

James Madison became president

Roman Bath house constructed in Morgan County at Berkeley Springs State Park

James Otis Watson was born in Fairmont

Dr. Richard Ellis Putney set up practice in Malden

The stockade at Fort Lee was torn down

Patrick Gass returned home to Brooke County after the War of 1812

Stockton's Tavern, later known as the Glen Ferris Inn, was built by two Irishmen

Reported 52 salt furnaces were operating along the Kanawha River for a distance of ten miles east of Charleston

A small settlement began to farm near the present day eastern corporate limits of Hurricane

Joseph Johnson was elected to the House of Delegates

Maps for the Virginia Board of Public Works began being published

Daniel Ruffner built Holly Grove mansion in Charleston

Asa Shinn laid out town lots in present Shinnston

The daughters of Charles Wells laid out town lots for Sistersville

Middlebourne became the county seat of Tyler County

The first general conference of the clergy of the Church of the United Brethren was held

A log House was built in Union

Cabell County troops fought at the Battle of New Orleans

Alfred Beckley graduated from West Point

John Jay Jackson Sr resigned his commission as a member of Andrew Jackson's staff during the Seminole War

Daniel Lamb's family moved to Wheeling

The Palladium of Virginia and the Pacific Monitor was founded in Lewisburg

The preliminary survey of Staunton Turnpike was made by Col. Claudius Crozet

James Subblefield acquired the Virginius Island property

Betty Zane died

John Augustine Washington II died, leaving Blakeley to John A. Washington III

Allen Taylor Caperton married Harriet Echols

Shrewsbury and Dickinson established the John Q. Dickinson salt furnace in Malden

Charles Faulkner spoke publicly for the gradual elimination of slavery

Wardensville was chartered in Hardy County

Harrisville was chartered

A fire destroyed most of the original interior wood trim of Holly Grove

Capon Iron Works was built by James Sterrett

The James River & Kanawha Turnpike was completed to the Ohio River

A branch of the Bank of Virginia was chartered in the Kanawha Valley

Charles James Faulkner gave his account of the boundary dispute between Maryland and Virginia

The first Mormon missionaries entered Cabell County

Moundsville was established on land by Simeon Purdy

The first courthouse at Ripley was built

The first post office in Ripley opened

Lydia Shepherd married Daniel Cruger after her former husband's death

James "Bad Jim" Vance was born

Jacob Van Meter of Hardy County abandoned the vernacular tradition house with his house in the Greek Revival style

John Augustine Washington died

William Wirt was a presidential candidate of the Anti-Masonic Party

Exchange Bank of Virginia in Norfolk established

Organ Cave described

Cincinnati Gas and Electric Company formed by act of Ohio General Assembly

Henry Harvey died in Buffalo

Marshall Academy (Marshall College, then Marshall University) was established

St. John's Episcopal Church was established in Charleston

Fayette County seat moved from New Haven to Vandalia (Fayetteville)

Judge Isaac R. Douglas bought Happy Retreat

David E. Jackson died

Mary Harris "Mother" Jones was born in Ireland

Daniel Lamb was admitted to the bar

The Monongahela Navigation Company was formed to improve the river for navigation

David Hunter Strother painted a portrait of Hunter John Myers from memory

Samuel Price married Jane Stuart

Mercer County was formed with Princeton as the county seat

Alfred Beckley settled in Beckley with his family

W.W. Fetterman built a saw mill in Valley Falls

The African Methodist Episcopal Church aided slaves in Western Virginia after John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry

Gordon Battelle moved to a church in Wheeling

Charles James Faulkner Sr. was appointed minister to France by President Buchanan

Alexander Boteler was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives as a Whig

Boyds moved to 500 block of South Queen Street, Martinsburg

Meshach Browning died

First oil-producing well drilled in Pennsylvania

Construction of stone-filled timber crib dams and timber-crib locks were completed on the Coal River

Henry Koontz bought a 600-acre farm in Easton, near Morgantown

Weston College was sold at public auction

Granville Davisson Hall moved to Wheeling

Morris Harvey began his service as Fayette County sheriff

George Imboden married Mary Franes Tyree

Martin Robison Delany and 34 others met with John Brown in Canada to develop a provisional constitution for the liberated slaves

Mother Jones began teaching in a convent school in Michigan

George Latham was admitted to the bar

Construction of Weston Hospital began

A library company in Wheeling was chartered by Virginia

Linsly Institute built a new three-story building

Martin Delany wrote Blake: or, The Huts of America

Daniel Lucas was admitted to the practice of law

Michael J. Owens was born

The Weston & Gauley Bridge Turnpike was completed

The Greenbrier Historical Society begun

Frederick Lemon sold the Ritchie Mines

Nathan Scott travelled to Leavenworth Kansas

Traveller took top prizes in the Lewisburg fair

Only 94 of 162 state chartered turnpike companies operated within West Virginia

The U.S. Customs House was built

A new U.S. Custom House was completed at Wheeling

Waitman Willey was defeated as a candidate for lieutenant governor of Virginia

The three-story front section of Henderson Hall was completed

West Virginia's first state flag was authorized by legislature