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Hardy County
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1746
George Fairfax accompanied the survey party that established the Fairfax line and placed the Fairfax Stone Other events that happened on or around 1746 Thomas Lewis surveyed the famous Fairfax Line George Clendenin was born in Augusta County
1777
Moorefield was chartered by the General Assembly
1786
Hardy County was formed from Hampshire County Other events that happened on or around 1786 City of Charles Town was established by Charles Washington The lawsuit between Lord Fairfax and Joist Hite was finally settled The U.S. started dividing the western territories into rectangular townships Edward Keenan deeded five acres in Monroe County for the Rehoboth Church and burying grounds Lewis and Christopher Tacket built a Fort in St. Albans Sampson Sanders was born in Loudoun County, Virginia John Young constructed the Tackett's Fort
1832
Wardensville was chartered in Hardy County Other events that happened on or around 1832 John Augustine Washington II died, leaving Blakeley to John A. Washington III Allen Taylor Caperton married Harriet Echols Claude Crozet ended his service in Virginia Shrewsbury and Dickinson established the John Q. Dickinson salt furnace in Malden Charles Faulkner spoke publicly for the gradual elimination of slavery Harrisville was chartered A fire destroyed most of the original interior wood trim of Holly Grove Capon Iron Works was built by James Sterrett The James River & Kanawha Turnpike was completed to the Ohio River A branch of the Bank of Virginia was chartered in the Kanawha Valley Charles James Faulkner gave his account of the boundary dispute between Maryland and Virginia The first Mormon missionaries entered Cabell County Moundsville was established on land by Simeon Purdy The first courthouse at Ripley was built The first post office in Ripley opened Lydia Shepherd married Daniel Cruger after her former husband's death James "Bad Jim" Vance was born Jacob Van Meter of Hardy County abandoned the vernacular tradition house with his house in the Greek Revival style John Augustine Washington died William Wirt was a presidential candidate of the Anti-Masonic Party
1866
Grant County was formed from Hardy County Other events that happened on or around 1866 There were 250 churches in West Virginia Capt. John M. Burns established a sawmill at Burnsville Jefferson and Berkeley confirmed as West Virginia by U.S. Congress Henry Gassaway Davis received charter to build the West Virginia Central and Pittsburgh Railway Dickinson-Shrewsbury partnership dissolved by the courts after partners died Private school for black children, in Parkersburg, was converted to a public school J. N. Boyd began publication of Vedette in Fairmont Three men were hanged on the "hanging tree" at Fort Boreman Freedmen's Bureau began operation in West Virginia Grantsville was laid out Morris Harvey and brother-in-law received a land grant from West Virginia of 1,000 acres on the west side of New River The Radical-dominated legislature enacted the Voters' Registration Law John Joseph Kain was ordained to the priesthood for the Diocese of Richmond The Buckhannon home of George Latham was purchased A new shop complex was built in Martinsburg, with roundhouse Elizabethtown and Moundsville were consolidated under Moundsville Free schools were established in Moundsville The multiflora rose was introduced to the eastern U.S. as rootstock for ornamental roses The North Bend superintendent's residence was built by Christopher Douglas Samuel Price became a director of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad. George Lemon died Sumner School became West Virginia's earliest black public school H.M. Calhoun was born Samuel W. Starks was born in Charleston Sumner School became a part of the segregated public school system Ceredo was incorporated The West Virginia Central & Pittsburg Railway was chartered under the name of the Potomac & Piedmont Coal & Railroad Company Archibald Campbell left the Wheeling Intelligencer William H. Davis became a teacher for Malden’s Black children
1877
Serious flood hit Hardy County Other events that happened on or around 1877 Women were first admitted as students to Bethany College on a provisional basis Bruen agents reappeared in the Jackson County area accompanied by U.S. Deputy Marshal Nathan Cunningham Legislature put place of state capital to vote of people Legislature created a Fish Commission and first game and warden appointments Caroline Dane "Danske" Bedinger married A.B. Dandridge Samuel Dixon emigrated to Fayette County Stephen Elkins and Henry Gassaway Davis became partners in developing land in West Virginia A major flood on the Greenbrier River damaged early settlements Frank Hereford was elected by the state legislature to fill the unexpired U.S. Senate term of Allen Taylor Caperton The Knights of Labor established a local organization at Paden City Voters chose Charleston over Clarksburg and Martinsburg as the permanent seat of government The Ohio Valley Pottery ceased making ironstone china A cadet battalion was formed at Linsly School The normal schools established a three-year term beyond elementary grades The Jackson Democrat became the Jackson Herald The first annual Jackson County Fair was held in Ripley I.C. White returned to WVU to teach geology Emanuel Wilson began serving in the House of Delegates
1912
Record floods hit Hardy County Other events that happened on or around 1912 J. A. Viquesney and H. M. Lockridge organized the Allegheny Sportsmen's Association Baldwin-Felts Agency attempted to end the Paint Creek-Cabin Creek strike Olgebay Hall, now Kirkpatrick Hall, added as a wing at Bethany College John Bishop published poem "To a Woodland Pool" in Harpers Weekly Alonzo Brooks received a B.A. in agriculture from WVU The Bull Moose Special armed train began operation Union Bank building finished in Clarksburg William Conley ran unsuccessfully for congressional 2nd district William Dawson embraced Theodore Roosevelt's Bull Moose presidential candidacy Diamond Shoe became the Diamond Shoe and Garment Co., later Diamond Department Store Samuel Dixon was purged from the New River Company by management from outside Clarence W. Alvord and Lee Bidgood concluded that the Batts and Fallam group only traveled to Peters Falls U.S. Supreme Court confirmed North Branch as Potomac main stream Fairmont State began adopting college curriculum The Golden Delicious Apple was discovered by Anderson Mullins in Clay County A Gasoline engine was placed in Howell's Gristmill Rimfire Hamrick was appointed Webster County game and fish warden The state called troops to mining strikes Charles Hodel established himself in Beckley as editor and general manager of the Raleigh Register Holidays Cove incorporated Harold Houston returned to Charleston A large Celtic cross was erected in Coalburg by William S. Edwards to honor the Irish mine workers Thomas Moore Jackson died Hubert "Bumps" Myers was born in Clarksburg Regular services at Job's Temple were suspended Mother Jones returned to West Virginia to aid union miners on Paint Creek and Cabin Creek Dr. George A. MacQueen took over the lease and changed Barber Sanatorium to Barber Sanatorium and Hospital A new double-track tunnel at Kingwood Tunnel was opened High school at Jane Lew was constructed Luna Park was built by J. B. Crowley in Charleston I. T. Mann was a candidate for the U.S. Senate The Apollo Theater was built in Martinsburg Harry F. Bryd sold the Martinsburg Journal to Max von Schlegell Louis Marx began working for Ferdinand Strauss John McGraw was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention John McGraw's Bank of Grafton failed Prohibitionist John McWhorter served as chairman of the West Virginia Ratification Federation John Raine became president of the Meadow River Lumber Company The Minnehaha Springs Improvement Company was formed The Minter Lumber Company was founded by William E. Minter The Monongahela Railroad was completed to Pittsburgh Margaret Montague published Linda Matthew M. Neely left the office of clerk of House of Delegates Reported 223 different newspapers were publishing in West Virginia Ohio Valley Trades and Labor Assembly supported Eugene V. Debs for president Ogden's company had acquired the Parkersburg Daily Sentinel Ida Reed published her autobiography My Life Story The Pallottine Missionary Sisters came to West Virginia William MacCorkle became active in the Salvation Army Edward Stifel built Edemar mansion The Charleston Interurban Railroad was built to St. Albans The Huntington tobacco warehouse opened T. C. Townsend was elected as Kanawha County's prosecuting attorney Pittsburgh's flood commission called for a dam on the Tygart Miners Hospital No. One changed its name to Welch Hospital No. One The College of Physicians and Surgeons became an independent program at WVU WVU had 46,500 books in the library Carter Woodson received a doctorate at Harvard Tibbs Run Reservoir began providing water to city of Morgantown
1924
Record floods hit Hardy County Other events that happened on or around 1924 Elementary school and junior high schools numbered 453 for African-American students and teachers Mary Atkeson wrote The Woman on the Farm The number of banks in West Virginia peaked at 225 state banks and 125 national banks Walter Barnes wrote The Children's Poets The Evening Post, Beckley's first daily newspaper, was established UMWA President Keeney and Secretary Treasurer Mooney were forced to retire Izetta Brown seconded Davis again for nomination Izetta Brown again defeated for U.S. Senate, this time by William Edwin Chilton Chauncey H. Browning graduated from WVU John W. Davis Democratic candidate for president Matthew Wesley Clair Sr. returned to Washington for a visit Association changed its name to West Virginia Council of Churches and Christian Education Democratic presidential candidate John W. Davis failed to carry home state West Virginia Huntington's Frederick Douglass Junior and Senior High School was built Patrick Gainer recorded folk songs and lore of West Virginia's people Construction of the Governor's Mansion began Major flood brought devastation Another school was built in Harrisville The Concord College He-Man Club began as picnic to honor retiring college president Christopher Columbus Rossey The hemlock wooly adelgid was first reported in the Western United States Colonel Joseph Long bought a corner lot in Huntington to erect a building for his paper, the Herald-Dispatch The UMWA had lost half of its members in West Virginia and was nearly bankrupt The Huntington Post-Herald became a daily newspaper Homer Holt married Isabel Wood of Charlottesville, Virginia Rush Holt graduated from Salem College Cheat Lake construction began, created primarily for the production of electricity Carmine Pelligrino of Rosemont held record of mining 66 tons of coal in 24 hours The Jackson's Mill property was donated to the state of West Virginia Ray Wetzel was born in Parkersburg Mother Jones called on Governor Morgan for pardons for miners imprisoned after the Logan March Out-of-state KKK publication carried reports from several West Virginia location The Ku Klux Klan marched through Hinton Howard B. Lee left office as Mercer County prosecuting attorney Carnegie library was established in Hinton Howard M. Gore became assistant secretary of agriculture Mountain lions were declared extinct Walter Martens designed the Science and Liberal Arts halls of Davis & Elkins College Clarence Cameron White was named director of music at West Virginia State College The Concrete Steel Bridge Company of Clarksburg had 52 separate construction teams in the field The Metropolitan Theater in downtown Morgantown opened Fred Mooney left as secretary-treasurer of UMWA District 17 The first Mountaineer Field opened The Clarke-McNary law was passed by Congress authorizing the purchase of forested, cut-over, or denuded lands for the production of timber in addition to the flow regulation of navigable streams Records of chicken production began. The West Virginia Public Health Association was organized. Jennings Randolph graduated from Salem College. Walter Reuther began work as apprentice tool and die maker at Wheeling Steel Leonard Riggleman accepted a pastorate in Milton William Ritter made headline for sharing $3 million in company stock with his employees Money from the John B. Crowley estate paid for a new addition to St. Francis Hospital A second wing was added to St. Joseph's Hospital The state built a fire tower in Seneca State Forest A merger agreement between Sheltering Arms Hospital and Charleston General Hospital fell through Ada "Bricktop" Smith performed in Paris West Virginia Wesleyan defeated Navy, Syracuse, Kentucky in football The West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference began Seneca State Forest became the first state forest in West Virginia P. D. Strausbaugh and colleagues collected, mounted and filed the nucleus of a new plant collection for WVU The Blackwater Boom & Lumber Company closed All lumber operations in Tucker County closed due to depletion of original forest Membership in the United Brethren Parkersburg Conference was 10,337 Frank Keeney and Fred Mooney resigned from the UMWA Ward Engineering built the Greenbrier, a sternweel towboat
1936
Record floods hit Hardy County Other events that happened on or around 1936 The two-year "standard normal" diploma program was abolished at Concord State Normal School Coopers Rock State Forest was established Earl Core received his PhD at Columbia University Earl Core organized the Southern Appalachian Botanical Club Cliff Hobbs of Cedar Grove began singing harmony for Billy Cox Muriel Miller married Lester Dressler Edgewood Country Club builds present clubhouse Susanne Fisher sang with the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra Cass Gilbert built the federal courthouse in Washington, D.C. Major flood from the South Branch River brought devastation to Grant County County poor farms were closed after establishment of Social Security Efforts to establish the Harpers Ferry National Historic Park began Hearings in the U.S. House of Representatives attributed 476 deaths to work on the Hawks Nest Tunnel
Jun 18, 1949
The river at Moorefield crested at 16.10 feet, more than six feet above flood stage
Nov 05, 1985
The most devastating flood in Hardy County's history occurred when river rose more than nine feet above flood stage Other events that happened on or around November 05, 1985 4 to 8 inches of rain had fallen A great flood ripped through the Trough The most devastating flood in Hardy County's history hit Timber and Watershed Lab at Fernow Forest was severely damaged by the flood Greenbrier River crested at 23.95 feet, more than nine feet above flood stage, killing 47 people Record flooding occurred in central and eastern West Virginia, killing 47 people High water reached 13 ft above flood stage at Glenville Major flood caused great damage to Marlinton There was a major flood in Parsons Cheat River crested at 24.3 feet, more than eight feet above flood stage Raging flood waters killed 16 people in Pendleton County West Fork at Weston crested at 24.10 feet, more than seven feet above flood stage The Philippi mummies were damaged in the flood and were treated by a local funeral home WVMR was major in reporting during the great flood
Jul 19, 1996
Two more floods hit Hardy County before completion of levee around Moorefield Other events that happened on or around July 19, 1996 A great flood hit Parsons
2000
Hardy County reported a population of 12,669 Other events that happened on or around 2000 Ceredo had 1,675 residents Charleston population fell to 53,421 Clay Foundation assets at $67 million Reported 44 chapters of the state society of the Daughters of the American Revolution Northern Panhandle and southeastern part of the state had highest median ages Eastern Panhandle and southwestern part of the state had lowest median ages Doddridge population reached 7,403 Dunbar had a population of 8,154 Charleston ranked 167th out of 318 Metropolitan Statistical Areas West Virginia's official poverty rate sat at 17.9% Elizabeth's population was 994 Fairmont had population of 19,097 People 65+ represented 15.3% of population in West Virginia Follansbee's population reported at 3,115 Forestlands of West Virginia reported at 78% of states' area Franklin population reported at 797 Grafton population stood at 2,489 Population of Grant County rose to 11,299 Greenbrier County had a population of 34,453 people Reported population of 32,667 in Hancock County Harpers Ferry was reported with a population of 307 Harrisville held a population of 1,842 The U.S. Census reported the state's population at 1,808,350 The population of Hurricane was reported at 5,222 Census reported 3,606 Indians living in West Virginia Jackson County's population was 28,000 Ripley's population stood at 3,263 Ravenswood's population stood at 4,301 Kanawha County population was the largest in the state at 200,073 Kenova population remained the largest in Wayne County at 3,485 Keyser's population was 5,303 Keystone's population had fallen to 453 City of Logan population was 1,630 Logan County population reported at 37,710 Population of Madison was 2,677 Mannington population was 2,124 Reported 142,728 manufactured homes in West Virginia West Virginia had the third-highest home-ownership rates in the U.S. at 75.2% Marion County population stood at 56,598 Population of Marlinton was 1,204 Marshall County's population was 35,519 Martinsburg population was 75,905 The population of Mason county was 25,957 Census reported African-Americans were 11.9% of McDowell's population Population of McDowell County was 27,329 West Virginia had the country's highest median age at 38.9 years Mercer County population was 62,980 Reported 125,336 members of 1,341 United Methodist churches in West Virginia Middlebourne's population was 870 Milton's population was 2,206 Monongalia County had a population of 81,866 Monroe county had a population of 14,583 Morgan County had a population of 14,943 Morgantown population was 26,809 Moundsville had a population of 9,978 Population of New Cumberland was 1,099 Nicholas County had a population of 26,562 Census reports 141,060 people living in the Northern Panhandle Oak Hill population was 7,589 Population of Ohio County was 47,427 Eleven Orthodox Christian churches were listed in a church survey with 4,310 adherents Paden City's population was 2,860 Parkersburg's population was 33,099 The population of Paw Paw was 524 Franklin had 797 residents The population of Petersburg was 2,423 The population of Philippi was 2,870 Piedmont's population was 1,014 The population of Pineville was 715 The population of Pleasants County was 7,514 The population of Pocahontas County was 9,131 Richwood had a population of 2,477 Ritchie County's population was 10,343 Roane County population was 15,446 Reported 100,000 Catholics in West Virginia Romney had a population of 1,940 The population of St. Albans was 11,567 St. Marys population was at 2,017 Reported 3,060 second homes in Pocahontas County Shinnston's population was 2,295 South Charleston had a population of 13,390 Spencer had a population of 2,352 Sternwheel Regatta festivities were scaled back to an extended weekend Hinton's population was 2,880 Summersville population was 3,294 Sutton had a population 1,011 Taylor County population was 16,089 Tucker County population was 7,321 Union had a population of 548 Upshur County population was 23,404 Vienna had a population of 10.861 Wayne had a population of 1,105 Wayne County population was 42, 903 Webster County population was 9,719 Webster Springs had a population of 808 Weirton population was 20,411 Welch population was 2,683 Wellsburg population was 2,891 West Union had a population of 806 Weston's population was 4,317 Westover had a population of 3,941 Wetzel County had a population of 17,693 Wheeling population was 31,419 Population of White Sulphur Springs was 2,315 Williamson population was 3,414 Winfield population was 1,858 Wirt County had a population of 5,873 Wood County had a population of 87,986 View Articles by Existing Key Dates or Specify Your Own Date Range |
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