Philip Doddridge

The Gleaner newspaper was founded

William Howells produced the book The Rise, Progress and Downfall of Aristocracy

The Irish began helping build the C&O Canal

The B&O railroad first begun in Baltimore

Edward Jackson died

James A. Price, father of William T. Price, came to Pocahontas County

Samuel Price settled in Nicholas County and was admitted to the bar

A bill passed Virginia calling for a constitutional convention

The Constitutional Convention convened in Richmond

Delegates assembled at Richmond for Constitutional Convention

Burnsville founded

Clay was first mined in Hancock County

Contentment was built at Ansted

Col. Stephen H. Long patented the Long truss system

Horse-powered ferry was advertised in the Kanawha Register

John Gallaher was elected to the Virginia House of Delegates

Charleston had 750 people

Anne Royall wrote Letters from Alabama

The Methodist Protestant Church was created in West Virginia

Elizabethtown was incorporated

The South Branch Intelligencer was established in Romney

John North sold his house to James Frazier

Harry Ripley died at Mill Creek

The 1829 Virginia Constitution left residents of the Trans-Allegheny dissatisfied

George Summers was first elected to the General Assembly

James Swan died in debtors prison in France

Christian Newcomer died

Southern Baptist Convention organized

Arthur Boreman was admitted to the bar

Bruen land agents had sold a number of farm sites to northern settlers

Luke Jaco opened a tavern and stagecoach stop that was part of the Underground Railroad

Reported three dozen primitive sawmills in present West Virginia

Town of Glenville was laid out

John Hale graduated from University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

Frank Herford graduated from McKendree College, Illinois

The Great Potato Famine in Ireland pushed many Irish into the area of Western Virginia

John Jay Jackson Jr. graduated from College of New Jersey (Princeton University)

The Reeves family moved to Philippi

William McCoy built a new mill on site of the old mill

Thomas Gaylord McKell was born

The Moorefield Examiner was established

Johnny Appleseed (John Chapman) died

Lynnside Manor was built

The middle section of Staunton Turnpike was completed to Weston

George Summers left the House of Representatives

William Thurmond moved to Fayette County

The Funkhouser house was built