Buckongahelas

Present Hampshire County was first visited by Europeans

Kyashuta was born in New York

Chief Logan was born in Pennsylvania

Burning Springs discovered by Capt. Matthew Arbuckle

George Fairfax stopped working as Lord Fairfax's agent

Horatio Gates built his home, Traveller's Rest, in Berkeley County

Daniel Davisson claimed land through settlement in Harrison County

Walter Kelly was credited as the first settlement despite being killed after a year

Charles Lee returned to America

Martinsburg was laid out by Gen. Adam Stephens

Edward Dulin was the first white settler in New Martinsville

Robert Thornton claimed 400 acres in Parkersburg.

Horatio Gate purchased property in present Jefferson County

Vienna was first settled

Harman Blennerhassett sold his property

Daniel Boone moved back to Kentucky

House now containing Brooke County's historical museum was built in Wellsburg

George Clendenin moved to Ohio

Bryan Fairfax became founding trustee of Charles Town Academy

Wilson Nicholas and Jacob Kenney sold their land to Robert Morris

Harman and Margaret Blennerhassett purchased Backus Island, now Blennerhassett Island

Thankful friends of Dick Pointer petitioned the Virginia Assembly for his freedom but were refused

Joseph Ruffner first visited his newly acquired land

William Strange was lost in the forests near Holly River

Joseph Tomlinson laid out a town called Elizabethtown

The massacre of the Bozarth family was the last Indian foray in Upshur County

The General Assembly incorporated the Spencer farm as a town

Lewis Wetzel moved to Louisiana Territory

Ferries operated across both Ohio and Little Kanawha rivers

Capt. Meriwether Lewis accepted Patrick Gass as a volunteer for expedition

John George Jackson elected to Congress from the First District of Virginia

The Old State Road underwent major repairs

Residents established the first school of Morgantown

Joseph Ruffner died

St. George's Chapel was abandoned due to the loss of endowments and property by the Anglican Church

Bank of Virginia at Richmond incorporated

Jesse Bennet was influential in the formation of Mason County

Jesse Bennet was appointed major of the Mason County militia

Aaron Burr killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel

William Clendenin helped form Mason County

The Lee Cabin was built by Henry "Lighthorse Harry" Lee

The Monongalia Gazette was founded in Morgantown

Aaron Burr made Blennerhassett Island a rendezvous point for his expedition south

Alderson Federal Prison Camp opened as the Federal Industrial Institution for Women

Mary Meek Atkeson wrote The Shining Hours

Wertz Field Charleston area's first airport near Dunbar constructed

Fokker Aircraft of America opened in Glen Dale

Union Carbide company bought Blaine Island

Charleston Daily Mail moved quarters to new building at 1001 Virginia Street East

The DuPont plant at Belle began making synthetic wood alcohol

Clarksburg's Exponent and Telegram newspapers merged under Clarksburg Publishing Company

North Central Association fully accredited the West Virginia Collegiate Institute (now West Virginia State University)

New construction to complete Corridor D into Ohio began

BB&T acquired One Valley Bank

The West Virginia Baptist Convention reported 463 churches

Community Newspaper Holdings of Alabama bought the Beckley Register-Herald

Facilities in Beech Fork State Park opened

Record of the longest brook trout caught, 23.5 in., 7.19 lbs.

Camden-Clark Memorial Hospital in Parkersburg added a cardiac catheterization laboratory

City National Bank stock fell to a fraction of its former price

NiSource and Columbia Natural Resources merged

Stephen Coonts wrote Hong Kong