Alderson Federal Prison Camp

Mary Meek Atkeson wrote The Shining Hours

Wertz Field Charleston area's first airport near Dunbar constructed

Fokker Aircraft of America opened in Glen Dale

Union Carbide company bought Blaine Island

Historical novel, The Scout of the Buckongehanon, was written by J. C. McWhorter

Charleston Daily Mail moved quarters to new building at 1001 Virginia Street East

The DuPont plant at Belle began making synthetic wood alcohol

Clarksburg's Exponent and Telegram newspapers merged under Clarksburg Publishing Company

North Central Association fully accredited the West Virginia Collegiate Institute (now West Virginia State University)