Hughes River

Joseph Tomlinson discovered the Grave Creek Mound

The massacre of Captain Bull's band of Delaware Indians by frontiersmen at Bulltown Historic Area

Murder of Adam Stroud's family

Raid on Bull's village

Earliest white settlement made by Dunkards near Kingwood

William Crawford surveyed and registered land in present West Virginia for George Washington

Lord Dunmore was named governor of Virginia

Isaac Cox built a log house in the Follansbee area

The Tygart Valley was resettled

Horatio Gates returned to America

The John Wetzel family settled along Wheeling Creek in the Northern Panhandle

Wilson-Woodrow-Mytinger House was built in Romney

Nutter's Fort was built on Elk Creek in Harrison County

Wellsburg was settled

Settlers had claimed most of the prime valley lands in Randolph County.

The first white explored the Wirt County area

John Beckley became the first clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives

Bryan Fairfax declined the title to become Lord Fairfax

The Presbyterian general Assembly adopted a policy to send missionaries to the American frontier settlements to form new congregations.

John Stuart built a large stone house in Fort Springs

John Augustine Washington was born

The Treaty of Fort Harmar was signed