Mill Point Prison Camp

The Short Ballot Amendment was rejected by voters

Jazz singer Jennie Smith was born

Report by Paul A. T. Noon and Mildred W. Sandoe showed 88% of West Virginia were without library services

The Lonesome Pine Fiddlers began at WHIS radio in Bluefield

Pare Lorentz was appointed head of the U.S. Film Service by President Franklin Roosevelt

Upton Sears made a special crosscut saw to cut the famous Mingo Oak

Jack Maurice joined the staff of the Charleston Daily Mail as a reporter

Howard Gray became president of the Meadow River Lumber Company

Congress approved construction of flood-control reservoir on the Mud River

Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, was incorporated

The New York Central merged with the K&M, K&WV and other railroads

The Greenbrier County Museum Committee was created

The wooden deck of the Philippi Covered Bridge was removed and replaced with a concrete deck supported by steel girders and new intermediate concrete piers

Pinnacle Rock State Park opened

The first annual "Feast of the Ramson" was held in Richwood

Ruth Rohde served on the advisory board of Alderson's Federal Reformatory for Women

Hubert Skidmore published Heaven Came So Near

Ada "Bricktop" Smith made radio broadcast in France

The West Virginia Department of Mines first reported production figures for surface mining

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers completed the Tygart Dam

Clint Thomas suffered an ankle injury

An area for an arboretum was set aside in Watoga State Park

The dental hygiene department opened at West Liberty State College

A West Liberty State College branch campus opened in Wheeling

The state was divided into four regions for the West Virginia Athletic Union basketball tournament

WVU had 3,500 students and 150 faculty

Patty Willis exhibited her work at the Society of International Artists in New York

Joe L. Smith Jr applied for a broadcast license

Fairmont radio station WMMN increased to 5,000 watts

Grote Reber confirmed that radiation at radio wavelengths was reaching the earth from outer space

Alderson-Broaddus College (now University) achieved accreditation from the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

Three-class format based on school size, each class having eight teams was created for the state high school basketball tournament

Berwind Lake Wildlife Management Area began

J. G. Bradley sold the Widen Mine to Clinchfield Coal Company

Owners of Maryland's Pimlico Race Course bought Charles Town Race Track

Name changed from Barber Sanatorium to Kanawha Valley Memorial Hospital

Goodyear plant built near Apple Grove

There were 47 covered bridges still in existence in West Virginia

Donald Duncan sold the Duncan Parking Meter Corporation

Ellis Dungan Productions produced Wheels to Progress

Medium green was introduced for fiestaware

Hal Greer advanced to the National Basketball Association after graduation from Marshall

Perry Gresham wrote Sage of Bethany

Four Boone County businessmen opened the first Heck's department store in Charleston

Dixie Kilham bought the Hilltop House

William Hoffman wrote Days in the Yellow Leaf

Homer Laughlin China Company began producing restaurant china

John Knowles wrote his first novel, A Separate Peace

John Knowles wrote his first novel, A Separate Peace

Catherine Marshall married Leonard E. LeSourd

Kyle McCormick wrote The New-Kanawha River and the Mine War of West Virginia

Charlie McCoy moved to Nashville

New Mennonite congregation started in Pocahontas County

Moncove Lake was created by the damming of Devil Creek

Size of the Moundsville prison doubled

John Forbes Nash was hospitalized for schizophrenia

The first radio telescopes were in operation at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory at Green Bank

The historic Reber Radio Telescope moved to Green Bank

Warden M. Lane outline a proposal for reorganization of the Conservation Commission to correct an overlapping of duties

Lewis Keller, Sr. purchased the Oakhurst Links property from Cary Montague

Don Gardner became the first president of Ohio Valley College (now University)

Rex and Eleanor Parker had a conversion experience and thereafter performed only sacred music

Rebel Records was founded in Maryland

Nat Reese returned to West Virginia to work for the State Road Commission

ABC-TV first aired Lunch with Soupy Sales

WVU basketball team lost 71-70 to California in the National Collegiate Athletic Association tournament final

Reported 2,843 schools in West Virginia

Shenandoah Downs opened in Charles Town

Agnes Smith published An Edge of the Forest

Hulett Smith left the state Aeronautics Commission

Blaze Starr met Louisiana Gov. Earl Long while performing in New Orleans

Jerry West was named most valuable player of the NCAA tournament

Jerry West was unanimous All American first-team choice

Patrick Gainer became president of the West Virginia Folklore Society

The Mountaineers went to the national basketball championships

Water ski shows failed to draw a crowd

William F. Troy, S.J. became president of Wheeling College (now Wheeling University)

Katherine Johnson married Lt. Colonel James A. Johnson

Tunney Hunsaker fought Ernie Terrell

The Special Forces (Green Berets) were created in the Army National Guard