John S. Gallaher

Workers completed construction on the National Road

James Stephenson and Henry Logan opened a tanyard in Parkersburg

Harman Blennerhassett returned impoverished to England

Second meeting in Staunton was called

The Old State Road ran from Lewisburg to Montgomery's ferry

Joseph Doddridge wrote Notes on the Settlement and Indian Wars

Congress assigned the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers the responsibility of maintaining year-round navigation on America's inland rivers

Flood waters severely damaged the lock and dam systems on the West Fork

A private Virginia company upgraded the Midland Trail into the James River & Kanawha Turnpike

Anne Royall lost her inheritance to relatives and was refused pension as widow of Revolutionary War veteran

John Taylor died

Burnsville founded

Clay was first mined in Hancock County

Contentment was built at Ansted

Col. Stephen H. Long patented the Long truss system

Philip Doddridge was reelected to Congress

Horse-powered ferry was advertised in the Kanawha Register

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

Alexander Scott Withers wrote and Joseph Israel published Chronicles of Border Warfare

Alexander Scott Withers wrote and Joseph Israel published Chronicles of Border Warfare

Martin Delany moved to Pittsburgh

Ripley, the county seat of Jackson County, was laid out by Jacob Starcher

George Jackson died

Julie Neale Jackson died

Terra Salis became Malden when David Ruffner laid out lots, streets and alleys

Daniel Lamb was elected city clerk of Wheeling

A state law library was established in Lewisburg

The Western Virginian and People's Press was established in Elizabethtown

The trustees of Monongalia Academy established Morgantown Female Collegiate Institute

Anne Royall established Paul Pry newspaper in Washington

William Chapman Sr.'s Chapman Floating Theater floated down the Ohio River from Pittsburgh

Construction began at Staunton on turnpike

Wheeling was declared an inland port of entry

Richard Whelan was ordained to the priesthood

Waitman Willey graduated from Madison College in Pennsylvania

B&O line completed to Cumberland

Baltimore & Ohio Railroad came to Martinsburg

Jacob Blair began to study law under his uncle John Jay Jackson, Sr.

Western Virginians met in Clarksburg and Lewisburg and demanded a Constitutional Convention

Henry Gassaway Davis became brakeman for the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad

Joseph Diss Debar came to the U.S.

William Edwards graduated from Williams College

Chester Hubbard married Sarah Pallister

John Jay Jackson Sr commanded a brigade in the Virginia militia

Stonewall Jackson entered West Point

Joseph Lightburn sought admission to West Point

Fairmont became county seat at creation of Marion County

The B&O Railroad arrived in Mineral County

The General Assembly chartered three academies in Pocahontas County for the preparation of students for the University of Virginia, at Green Bank, Hillsboro, and Huntersville

William Rosecrans graduated from West Point

Wayne was founded as a town

Kellian Whaley moved to Wayne County

Alfred Beckley was appointed a militia general

The Buffalo Academy was founded

Alexander Campbell elected president of the American Christian Missionary Society

Baltimore investors built Mountain House at Capon Springs

First national convention of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) denomination

General Assembly authorized development of plans for improvements to make Coal River more navigable

Guyandotte was officially incorporated

City of New Cumberland received its charter from Virginia

Frank Hereford moved to California where he practiced law

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

Cummins Jackson died in California

John Jacob obtained a B.A. from Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania

The first Jewish community established a religious congregation in Wheeling

William C. Kelly was born

Construction on the B&O line Kingwood Tunnel began

George Latham moved to Taylor County

The Guyandotte Navigation Company was incorporated by the state of Virginia

The National Hotel was built in Martinsburg

Randolph McCoy married his cousin Sarah McCoy

Alexander Creel bought back land he had previously sold and established the city of St. Marys

Samuel Price was reelected to the House of Delegates.

William Miller died

Lydia Shepherd denied that Betty Zane made the famous gunpowder run to save Fort Henry, claiming it was Molly Scott

Patrick Donahue was born

The Wheeling tannery was founded by John G. Hoffman

Work began on the Weston & Gauley Bridge Turnpike

Wheeling had free public schools

Winfield was laid out

A brick courthouse was completed at Winfield