Rebecca Harding Davis

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

Monroe County discontinued the system

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

Alexander Martin moved to Jefferson County, Ohio

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

Report of Salt Rock petroglyphs included in Smithsonian Institution's "Contributions to Knowledge"

Bids authorized on the Beverly-Fairmont Turnpike

William Eagle died

First county and circuit courts of Wirt County met in "Old Red Brick"

The Giles, Fayette and Kanawha Turnpike was completed

John Floyd was elected governor

German immigration increased from desire to escape persecution during European Revolutions

The first German newspaper was established in Wheeling

The Giles, Fayette & Kanawha Turnpike was completed

Joseph H. Gill surveyed the Guyandotte River from its mouth to Gilbert Creek

The Ellicott Brothers business failed

C. P. Huntington went to California with the gold rush to sell supplies to miners

A Catholic Church was established at Sand Fork

John Jay Jackson Jr. served as prosecuting attorney of Wirt County

Daniel Lamb became the cashier of the Northwestern Bank of Virginia at Wheeling

A single lock and dam was built on the Elk River

Ephraim Squier and Edwin Davis published Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley

Mount de Chantal Visitation Academy was founded

Francis Pierpont began an association with the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad.

A massive fire and flood doomed Creel's village to an early death

Samuel Price was reelected to the House of Delegates

Bancroft was settled

Henry Ruffner resigned as president of Washington College (Washington and Lee University)

James Stephenson left the House of Delegates

Henry St. George Tucker, Sr. died

Cabell, Berkeley, and Jefferson counties provided infantry regiments for service in the Mexican-American War

Lincoln called on states to supply 75,000 militiamen for three month service

Retreating Confederate soldiers burned the Harpers Ferry arsenal buildings

John Jay Jackson Sr. voted against secession in the secession convention

Alexander Boteler ran unsuccessfully for Congress

Col. George Imboden bought the house known as Contentment in Ansted

William Dawson was elected chairman of the Preston County Republican committee

Alexander Donaghho started a pottery operation

Congress ordered a survey of the Guyandotte River

The first courthouse was replaced in Ritchie County

William Harvey began practicing law in Huntington

Hinton was laid out and lots sold

Investors erected a coke-fueled blast furnace along the C&O railway

William C. Kelly began making axes in Kentucky

John Birch became principal of Linsly School

Steamboats began travel from Parkersburg upriver to Palestine (Wirt County) on the Little Kanawha

The U.S. Congress authorized a survey of the Big Sandy and Tug and Levisa forks to determine the feasibility of building locks and dams

Henry Clay Ragland arrived in Logan

The town of Hurricane was established as Hurricane station after the Chesapeake & Ohio railroad was completed.

Henry Ragland moved to Logan.

Shepherd University had 160 students

A group of shotgun cottages were built for workers of the Central Glass Company and the Wheeling & Elm Grove Railroad

Alexander Wade implemented the a plan for the rural elementary education

James O. Watson's coal mine partnership with Francis H. Pierpont was dissolved

The West Virginia Baptist Association was formed

The Education Association's first recorded constitution and bylaws were drafted and adopted

The Wheeling Diocese claimed 46 churches 7 chapels, 9 schools seminary, hospital 31 priests and 109 women religious

Four locks and dams were completed by the Little Kanawha Navigation Company

The first public high school diplomas issued in the state were awarded to Parkersburg High School graduates

City of Huntington purchased the property from the Central Land Company, owned by Collis P. Huntington

Charles Ambler received an A.B. in social sciences

J. G. Bradley came to West Virginia

Sturdevant and Johnson constructed new buildings

Buffalo Creek & Gauley Railroad was built

Name changed from Thomas Hospital to Charleston General Hospital

Barber Sanatorium constructed by Dr. Timothy L. Barber Sr.

Railroad from Greenbrier Valley to Bartow completed

Roy Bird Cook graduated from high school

John Cornwell was Democratic nominee for governor

Davis & Elkins College founded by Southern Presbyterians

William M. O. Dawson ceased to be chairman of West Virginia Republicans

John Dickinson became the first director of the Kanawha Coal Operators Association

Chestnut blight introduced to America

Fairmont West Virginian became daily

Millard Giesey and Frederic Faris designed the West Virginia Building at the St. Louis World's Fair

Pennsylvania investors opened a second glass sand plant on the east side of Warm Springs Ridge

The Glenville Democrat was first published

Capt. Greene acquired the Cincinnati, Portsmouth, Big Sandy & Pomeroy Packet Co.

Railroads reached the Guyandotte River area

The National Carbon Company began operating a graphite plant in Anmore

The Huntington Dispatch began

Frankie Masters was born in Pleasants County

Cousin Abe Lilly was elected prosecuting attorney of Raleigh County

The C&O Railroad was constructed from Huntington to city of Logan

The Logan County coal industry began its boom

Gannett's gazetteer was the first to be devoted exclusively to West Virginia place names and locations

Wheeling Metal and Manufacturing Company opened in Glen Dale

Sandy Mason moved back to Charleston to start the Mason School of Music and Fine Arts

John McGraw became chairman of state Democratic party

Thomas Gaylord McKell died

John McWhorter became a judge of West Virginia's 12th judicial circuit

James Miller was elected as a judge of the Circuit Court of the Ninth West Virginia Circuit

A fifteenth dam was built on the Monongahela

The daily edition Morgantown Evening Post stopped publication

The Morgantown Chronicle was founded by Hu Maxwell

The Mount St. George mansion was completed

John Nugent was elected president of UMWA District 17

Herschel Ogden purchased the Wheeling Intelligencer

Ohio Valley Trades and Labor Assembly spearheaded a drive that defeated a proposal to built a Carnegie Library in Wheeling

Pence Springs water was presented the highest award in its class.

Benjamin Rosenbloom was admitted to the West Virginia bar

Henry Schmulbach built the Schmulbach Building in Wheeling

Official addressed the question of a flag for the West Virginia building at the St. Louis World's Fair

John Swint was ordained to the priesthood

William P. Tams went to work for Samuel Dixon in the New River coalfield

Henry Gassaway Davis built the Coal & Coke Railway

Sam Vinson died

John T. McGraw expanded the Webster Springs Hotel

A president who was not the state superintendent of school was elected to head of the West Virginia Education Association

Charles Frederick Tucker Brooke was elected to be in the first group of Rhodes Scholars

Matthew Whittico renamed his paper the McDowell Times

J. G. Bradley came to Clay County

Hurry-up Yost's University of Michigan team defeated WVU 130-0

Romeo Freer returned to Ritchie County and was appointed Harrisville postmaster

Paul Wissmach reorganized his company as Ohio Valley Glass Company