Sectionalism and the Virginias

Ohio County was organized at a meeting of the landholders

Kentucky was created as a county of Virginia

An Apology for Christianity was published in response to Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

William Crawford commissioned colonel

Lord Dunmore returned to England

Virginia abolished quitrents and excepted Fairfax's proprietary

Fort Randolph was constructed at Point Pleasant under Capt. Matthew Arbuckle

Daniel Greathouse died of measles

John Holliday began operating a trading post at Hollidays Cove

Early explorer Stephen Sewell was killed by Indians at his cabin

Mad Anthony Wayne joined the continental army

The Continental Congress was petitioned to form a new state called Westsylvania

An new effort to form a colony like Vandalia began

Fort Henry was renamed for Governor Patrick Henry

Philip Doddridge was elected to Congress

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

Philip Doddridge was selected to represent Western Virginia at the Constitutional Convention 1829-1830

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

Philip Doddridge was reelected to Congress

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

George Summers was first elected to the General Assembly

James Swan died in debtors prison in France

Christian Newcomer died

Management at Sweet Springs opened a new hostelry

Gordon Battelle received a B.A. from Marietta Collegiate Institute (Marietta College)

John Carlile was admitted to the bar

Castlerock community began

90 furnaces produced a million bushels of salt annually

Eli Moore graduated from Jefferson College

William Howe given patent for the Howe truss system

G. W. Hammond demolished Ferdinando Fairfax's plantation, Shannon Hill, and built the present dwelling in Jefferson County

Fayette County's first census recorded 3,924 residents

Two communion cups from this year are among the antiques of the Forks-of-Cheat Baptist Church

John Hale moved to the Kanawha Valley

Mill Island was built as a private house

John H. Hall invented the first working interchangeable firearms manufacturing system for breechloading rifle at Hall's Rifle Works

Chester Hubbard graduated as valedictorian from Wesleyan University of Connecticut

The first church was built in the Jackson County area

Jackson County's population was 4,890

Construction of the James River & Kanawha Canal was completed between Richmond and Lynchburg

Joseph Lightburn moved to Lewis County

Kanawha Salines Presbyterian Church was constructed

Mifflin Marsh began selling stogies to steamboat crews and passengers for four for a penny

John Chapman erected the first house in New Cumberland

All bridges on the Northwestern Virginia Turnpike were completed

William P. Rathbone and his sons purchased 12,000 acres at Burning Springs Run in Wirt County.

Benjamin Stickley was licensed as a United Brethren evangelist

German members of the United Brethren in Baltimore migrated to Braxton County

The Rathbones purchased land at Burning Springs

Female Academy in Union (Monroe County) started

Locust Hill was built by Lucy Elizabeth Washington

The Wine family first settled in Braxton County