Giles, Fayette & Kanawha Turnpike

Beckley was established as a town

Grave Creek Tablet found at Grave Creek Mound in Moundsville

Claymont burned to the brick walls

James Warren and T. W. Morzani patented the Warren double-intersection truss

Northwestern Virginia Turnpike was completed to Parkersburg

Palatine was surveyed

Robert E. Lee became captain

Claudius Crozet recommended that 10 locks and dams be constructed to permit navigation of the Little Kanawha

The Monongahela Navigation Company of Pennsylvania built a series of locks and dams from Pittsburgh to the West Virginia border

The General Assembly granted Morgantown its first charter

Martinsville was incorporated

The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad arrived in Paw Paw

Samuel Price moved to Lewisburg

The Princeton post office opened

Alexander Reynolds graduated from West Point

The Shannondale Springs resort was incorporated

The James River & Kanawha Turnpike was extended to Parkersburg

The first class of West Liberty State College met in the home of Nathan Shotwell

Dr. John J. Moorman began doctoring the crowds at White Sulphur Springs

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

Bids authorized on the Beverly-Fairmont Turnpike

Rebecca Davis graduated from the Washington (Pennsylvania) Female Seminary

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

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

General Loring drove back Union troops near Fayetteville