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Roman Bath house constructed in Morgan County at Berkeley Springs State Park

James Otis Watson was born in Fairmont

Dr. Richard Ellis Putney set up practice in Malden

Claude Crozet ended term with Napoleon at his defeat at Waterloo

The stockade at Fort Lee was torn down

Patrick Gass returned home to Brooke County after the War of 1812

Stockton's Tavern, later known as the Glen Ferris Inn, was built by two Irishmen

Reported 52 salt furnaces were operating along the Kanawha River for a distance of ten miles east of Charleston

A small settlement began to farm near the present day eastern corporate limits of Hurricane

Joseph Johnson was elected to the House of Delegates

Maps for the Virginia Board of Public Works began being published

Daniel Ruffner built Holly Grove mansion in Charleston

Asa Shinn laid out town lots in present Shinnston

Middlebourne became the county seat of Tyler County

The first general conference of the clergy of the Church of the United Brethren was held

A log House was built in Union

Cabell County troops fought at the Battle of New Orleans

Baptist-affiliated Rector College opened in Western Virginia

The Glen Ferris Inn was first used as an inn

The Ellicott brothers purchased the Jackson ironworks and the Henry Clay Furnace

John Jacob moved to Romney after father's death

The first museum at Grave Creek Mound opened

The town of New Cumberland was laid out by John Cuppy

Peter Tarr died

James Stephenson was first elected to the House of Delegates

The Tomlinson mansion was built

Artist James E. Taylor was born in Cincinnati

B&O operated 1,700 miles of railroad

Joseph Beury and others opened Mill Creek Coal & Coke, first mine in Mercer County

Arthur Boreman organized a relief effort to assist victims of Ohio River flood

Belle Boyd divorced Swainston

W.E.R. Byrne was admitted to the bar

The Kanawha & Michigan Railway was completed on north side of Kanawha River in Charleston

Moses W. Donnally bought the Chronicle

Charleston National Bank founded as a national bank

Sydenham Herford died

William and Tom Anderson stopped running the Easton Roller Mill

William Edwards published another volume in his three-volume work on butterflies, The Butterflies of North America

Stephen Elkins was elected executive chairman of the National Republican Committee

Glenville High School moved into a house

The Hampshire Review was started by C.F. Poland

The American Ancient Order of Hibernians had groups in Rowlesburg, Clarksburg, Parkersburg, Coal Valley and Charleston

The Quinnimont iron furnace was closed

Other mills were destroyed by floods on the Jug of the Middle Island Creek

James Kay returned to West Virginia

The Lincoln County Feud began when Paris Brumfield killed Boney Lucas

The first multistate gazetteer including West Virginia, Maryland and Delaware appeared

Hu Maxwell wrote a history of Tucker County

Mennonites erected their first meetinghouse in West Virginia in Pendleton County

James Miller left as superintendent of Summers County schools

James Miller became Summer County prosecuting attorney

C. F. Millspaugh published the first section of American Medicinal Plants

New Cumberland became the permanent county seat of Hancock County

Earl Oglebay started working in a Cleveland iron ore firm

Large flood occurred on the Ohio

Democrat Emanuel Willis Wilson mounted a populist campaign that challenged monopolies and railroads

Samuel and Violet Bryant came to America from England

The first golf club in America was organized at Oakhurst at White Sulphur Springs

Telephone switchboards were installed at Huntington

Telephone switchboards were installed at Moundsville

The West Virginia Central & Pittsburg was extended to Tucker County

The Ohio River Railroad reached Vienna

The first West Virginia Historical Society ceased

I.C. White began working for the U.S. Geological Survey

Emanuel Willis Wilson succeeded into the governorship

The Ohio River Railroad was completed

The Ohio River flooded at Wheeling