Hawks Nest State Park

Gen. Elisha Boyd built the Martinsburg mansion Boydsville

Sinnett Triplett first known white man to occupy present Clay County

The first gristmill in Gilmer County was built in Glenville

Wilson Cary Nicholas purchased Green Bottom and established an overseer slave plantation

The Greenbrier College for Women was founded as the Lewisburg Academy by Dr. John McElhenney

Industrial development, especially salt and iron, was stimulated by the War of 1812

The Ices Ferry Ironworks supplied iron for shot used in the Battle of New Orleans and shipped nails and plates for Admiral Perry's Lake Erie squadron

The first Western Virginia rolling mill was in operation at Ices Ferry Ironworks

Legislature appointed John George Jackson a brigadier general in the Virginia militia during the war

John George Jackson emerged as one of the foremost businessmen of the upper Monongahela Valley

Joseph Johnson became captain of the Harrison Riflemen

Aaron Stockton settled at Kanawha Falls

The Kanawha Valley salt industry boomed

John Marshall led a 20 man survey party mapping the route across West Virginia between the James and Ohio Rivers

Hawks Nest was named Marshall's Pillars

Justice Joseph Story delivered the decision to reverse Virginia Court of Appeals in the David Hunter case after John Marshall recused himself from the case

Robert Gorrell laid out town lots at present Middlebourne

Organ Cave was mined for saltpeter to manufacture gunpowder

Spencer was first settled by the Samuel Tanner and Jonathan Wolfe families

Anne Royall moved to Charleston after death of Wm. Royall

Henry Ruffner attended Washington College (now Washington and Lee University)

John George Jackson began his salt works on the West Fork

Salt production quadrupled on 52 furnaces to reach one million bushels

Robert Simmons fought in the War of 1812

The "Big Cave" on Cave Mountain was a source of saltpeter for the production of gunpowder

Samuel Tanner and Jonathan Wolfe moved into a cave near present Spencer Middle School

Western Virginia militias took parts in the Northwest Campaign

Ogden Newspapers of Wheeling purchased the morning Times, evening West Virginian, and Sunday Times West Virginia, all of Fairmont

Fernow Experimental Forest was recognized as a typical example of West Virginia timberlands, based on plant and animal diversity, topography, timbering history, and climate

Repeal of prohibition allows reopening of brewery by Fesenmeier Company

Susanne Fisher began two year stint in America

Fokker Aircraft Plant building was sold to Louis Marx Toy Company

Donald Gaudineer became ranger of the Cheat Ranger District at Parsons

Alberta Pierson Hannum wrote The Hills Step Lightly

Another great trial was held against the contractor of the Hawks Nest Tunnel by those who contracted silicosis

Roy Bird Cook became president of Cook Drug Company

Civilian Conservation Corps established Camp Price

Families began moving into their new homes in Eleanor

The Myers brothers filmed One Room Schoolhouses

Susanne Fisher sang with the New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra

School of Forestry was established at WVU

Cheat Mountain salamander was discovered on White Top Mountain

Howard Mason Gore served as director of the federal rural rehabilitation program for Harrison County

The National Industrial Recovery Act was declared unconstitutional

The Wagner Act revived many parts of the NIRA relating to labor after the Supreme Court ruled the NIRA unconstitutional

Joseph Hodges was ordained to the priesthood for the Diocese of Richmond

Fanny Johnson's story "The Dinner Set" was published in Weird Tales

Morris Harvey College (now University of Charleston) moved to Charleston from Barboursville

UMWA President John L. Lewis challenged the American Federation of Labor by initiating campaign to organize workers by industry rather than craft

Governor Kump declared he wanted to see a library within reach of every citizen

89 percent of all families in Lincoln County regularly accepted government relief

Tom Kromer wrote Waiting For Nothing

Tom Kromer wrote Waiting For Nothing

Logan Banner became an afternoon daily

Henry Louis Gates edited Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and the African-American Experience

Mountains and Music was published by the University of Illinois Press

John Hendricks formed the Womens United Soccer Association

Homer Hickam published his first novel, Back to the Moon

William Hoffman published Doors

William Hoffman won the Dashiell Hammett Prize for Tidewater Blood

The 42-megawatt facility on the Ohio River at Belleville began producing electricity

Century Aluminum divided and sold part of the operation to Pechiney Rolled Products

Charles James III sold the James Produce Company

First National Bank of Keystone was closed by federal agencies

Keith Mailard published Gloria

Jedediah Purdy published For Common Things

Melvin Lentz and Paul Cogar cut an 8x8 yellow poplar log through two times in 5.08 seconds using a crosscut saw

Ellie Mannette received a National Heritage Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts

Mount Olive Prison began operating above capacity

City of Morgantown agreed to lease the Tibbs Run Reservoir property to West Virginia Botanic Garden